[Docutils-develop] [ docutils-Patches-3365949 ] latex2e: Allow footnotes to be more easily customizable

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Patches item #3365949, was opened at 2011-07-13 10:35
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Submitted By: Kirill Smelkov (kirr79)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: latex2e: Allow footnotes to be more easily customizable

Initial Comment:
For example Russian GOST 19.106 requires that footnotes contain
footnote-number + ")" which in plain LaTeX could be done as

    \renewcommand{\thefootnote}{\arabic{footnote})}
                                                 ^
                                            note ")"

but Docutils uses its own \DUfootnotemark and \DUfootnotetext macros
with hyperlinks setup which redefine \thefootnote in-there and the
above-shown tweak does not work.

So in order to make even small tweaks for foot notes, users have to
either "fork" \DUfootnotemark and \DUfootnotetext in their stylesheet,
or better, what I'm proposing here, just redefine here-introduced
\DUthefootnote, e.g. like this:

    \providecommand*{\DUthefootnote}[1]{#1)}

Thanks,
Kirill

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>Comment By: Günter Milde (milde)
Date: 2011-07-20 22:00

Message:
Thanks for the patch. I am hesitant to commit it thoug:

The "righe way" to solve the footnotemark-customization prolem is proper
support for LaTeX footnotes 
via the \footnote command. This is on the TODO list
<http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/dev/todo.html#latex-constructs-and-packages-instead-of-re-implementations>.

The \DUfootnotemark and \DUfootnotetext commands are introduced to allow
customization, so 
changing them in the stylesheet is no "fork" but a valid use case. I agree
that customization becomes
simpler in your special case, but at the cost of more overhead and
complexity in every generated document.

I propose a  "GOST.sty" stylesheet  with adaptions for Russian documents
in the sandbox stylesheet collection 
http://docutils.sourceforge.net/sandbox/stylesheets/ instead.

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