[Docutils-develop] Footnotes in LaTeX Writer [was Re: Functionnal LaTeX writer]

[Julien T. L. <me...@fr...>]

Hi list,

On Sep 23, 2002, at 12:25, gr...@us...  was heard saying:

> i will check in the modifications into my sandbox (if it worls today this day)

Fine.

> * web-site is not a docinfo item so it will not be handled in the docinfo
>   section. this is not recognizable in html as the handling is the same

> * in latex i might choose to put author and date under latex control.

Probably better visually.

BTW, I won't be able to complete my version of the Writer today -- I'm having
problems with py Python installation... and with ReST footnotes.

Please give me your opinion:

* the problem comes from the fact that footnote refs and footnote bodies are
  separated in ReST, whereas in LaTeX, they're not.

* my first solution doesn't work (defining footnote bodies in the document
  head, and referring to them afterward -- ugly)

* second solution: replace foonotes by captionless floats: this way refs and
  defs can easily be separated. Example::

	my note [1]_

	.. [1] note body.

  becomes (without backrefs)::

	my note [\href{#note-1}{1}]

	\begin{figure}{b} % at least put the notes at the bottom...
		\hypertarget{note-1}
		\footnotesize
		[1] note body.
	\end{figure}

This isn't very LaTeX-ish, but it works, and is easy to realize.
Footnote ordering will be the order of the defs, not of the refs, which
probably is unimportant.

What's your opinion about this method?

BTW, Handling bibliography references/definitons is, of course, easier, since
they're pretty much the same (struture-wise) in ReST and LaTeX.

.. troll:
	Next problem: tables. Sounds hard, hmm? Well, I'm pushing stuff in
	and popping stuff off the self.context stack quite a lot... hoping
	it works.

	And, surprisingly, it does!

Cheers,
-- 
Julien T. Letessier     email: co...@me...
ENSIMAG Student         web: http://www.mezis.net