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[Alvaro Tejero Cantero <address@hidden>]

[original message edited]

I said:

> > <assign|fnote|<\macro|text>
> >   <document|<with|font-base-size|9|<arg|text>><no-indent*>>
> > </macro>>

and 

> > The macro should print "text" in small size and remove indent. The
> > problem with "disable indentation before"  (=no-indent*) is that one can
> > no longer write a paragraph, i.e. the lines don't wrap.
> > Do you know how to redesign the macro?

Joris answered:

> This is non-trivial, because notes are very essentially floating objects.
> So you cannot escape the experienced slowness, except by hacking the C++ 
> code.
> One idea in that case would be to use a floating object which is positioned 
> "here"
> and to make the implementation of this fast in papyrus mode.

This would be very good, that notes get only sent to their final
position when in paper mode.

> Another (very crude) solution would be to hide the footnote alltogether and
> make it reappear in the final version.

Yes, or perhaps having a fold containing the text of the note activate
(unfold) by clicking a flag associated to the footnote.

But notice that while you answer a previous question by me about how to
make footnotes faster for daily editing, the question of this message,
which I didn't make very clear was


        why adding <no-indent*> or <no-indent> to the following macro
        makes the argument appear instead of as a paragraph as a very
        long line?


Maybe your answer also covers this small issue, but I don't see the
relation.


Kindest regards, 

'A.