Re: [Docutils-develop] footnotes transform

[Roberto A. <ra...@ne...>]

On Thursday 06 August 2009 14:30:09 Dave Kuhlman wrote:
> > From: Guenter Milde
> > Sent: Thursday, August 6, 2009 1:08:49 AM
> >
> >
> >   Paragraphs contain text and may contain footnote references\footnote{A
> >   footnote contains body elements, consistently indented by at least 3
> >   spaces.}
> >
> > For this, the footnote text must be known when the writer encounters
> > the footnote reference.
> >
> > I suppose this is a task for a new transform, right?
> >
> > How is this currently handled by other writers for page-based media
> > (odtwriter, manpage writer, rst2pdf)?
>
> I can help a bit with odf_odt writer

And I for rst2pdf :-)

rst2pdf has two modes:

* inline-footnotes: whenever a footnote is found, it's just inserted as a 
paragraph (actually as a 2-column table, but that makes no difference)

* default mode: footnotes are collected into a list, then placed at the end of 
the document manually (so they are really endnotes).

rst2pdf may never support real footnotes (at the page where they are defined) 
because it's much much harder (and also because of what you mention).

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