Dear Docutils developers,
I plan to revise the implementation of footnotes in the latex2e writer:
a) remove the implementation of
--figure-footnotes Use figure floats for footnote text.
The default in 0.6 (--use-latex-footnotes) will become the unique
behaviour until step b) is finished.
Deprecation warning for the options --figure-footnotes and
--use-latex-footnotes.
b) The current default behaviour (subscript text for footnote mark,
\footnotetext for footnote text) will be renamed to to
--docutils-footnotes.
A new option --latex-footnotes will use the LaTeX
\footnote{<footnotetext>} macro. Features:
* consistent numbering by LaTeX. (Explicit numbers like [3]_ will
work like labels.)
* multiple footnotes referring to the same text can be implemented
with \footnotemark[<docutils-determined number>]
* no mix of numeric and symbolic footnotes in one document
(would require additional LaTeX packages).
+ footnote text will appear at the page it is defined even if the
source has it at a later position.
+ simple, clean LaTeX source
+ automatic hyperlinks
+ configurable (e.g. \usepackage{endnotes} for end notes instead of
foot notes)
- LaTeX-error for footnotes inside some objects (tables, headings,
floats) if not prevented by additional packages.
Comments, corrections, warnings, ideas welcome.
Günter
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