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[David Allouche <address@hidden>]

On Saturday 29 December 2001 06:42, Stephane Payrard wrote:
> I notices that inserting a footnote when in a enumeration or
> itemization creates a footnote that is indented like the said
> enumeration or itemization. Footnotes should not be indented.

Nice move.

You are right, but that can easily fixed by modifying the definition of 
{footnote} in the style file.

Juste replace the footnote defintion in $TEXMACS_HOME/styles/float.ts

<assign|footnote|<macro|x|<assign|footnotenr|<plus|<apply|footnotenr>|1>><ass\
ign|thelabel|<apply|footnotenr>><float|footnote||<with|font
size|0.84|<surround|<apply|footnotenr>. <label|<merge|footnote-|<apply|footno\
tenr>>>||<arg|x>>>><space|0spc><rsup|<reference|<merge|footnote-|<apply|footn\
otenr>>>>>>

By a this new definition that resets the left margin.

<assign|footnote|<macro|x|<assign|footnotenr|<plus|<apply|footnotenr>|1>><ass\
ign|thelabel|<apply|footnotenr>><float|footnote||<with|font size|0.84|left
margin|0|<surround|<apply|footnotenr>. <label|<merge|footnote-|<apply|footnot\
enr>>>||<arg|x>>>><space|0spc><rsup|<reference|<merge|footnote-|<apply|footno\
tenr>>>>>>

But that is just a kludge. Many other things should be reset in the footnote 
macro: interparagraph space, interline space, paragraph style (centered 
footnotes are kind of funky), hyphenation mode, column number, etc... Some of 
them would have to be reset to the document's default value...

Actually, I think footnotes should be typeset the document's initial 
environment (that is set just after processing style files). I think the good 
way to implement it would be to allow peeking values from the initial 
environment. Then the stylesheet could decide just how much to restore.

By the way, multicolumn footnotes are even more funky than centered footnotes

For one thing, footnotes of multicolumn text appears in the columns, but it 
should appear out the columns, at the bottom of the page. One common usage 
pattern is to use multicolumn blocks _inside_ sections, section titles 
spanning the whole page. The current scheme would lead to footnotes that are 
actually in the middle of the page. Well maybe that's the way typographers do 
it...

Type "Multicolumn text is great." Create a footnote, type "Yes it is." in the 
footnote. Select your paragraph, select Paragraph->number of columns->3. The 
footnote text appears in the columns. (If you are lazy, just open the 
attached footnote_multicol document). You can even make the footnote flow 
multiple columns.

Bonus: Open the attached footnote_multicol document, place the cursor just 
after "expand footnote", press enter. Crash!

More Bonuses: Open the attached footnote_multicol, place the cursor just 
before or just after the multicol <with>. Footer should display "before with 
nr columns=3" or "with nr columnss=3", type X (or any other text). The 
footnote will disappear
 
Attack stopped.

Counter-attack:

If a footnote definition is placed on the last line of a page in "page" paper 
style, then the footnote text will appear on the next page. This behaviour 
appears with any page-breaking algorithm, including "professional". 
Professional page breaking (and maybe even "medium") should definitely know 
better and should do its best to keep the footnote text on the same page as 
the footnote reference.

Your turn.

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