[Docutils-develop] Re: Footnotes in LaTeX Writer

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

Hey list, it's me again.

On Sep 23, 2002, at 15:27, gr...@us...  was heard saying:

> you could send me your version for review ?

No problem.

> > * 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::
>
> the problem as i understand is you want to jump from/to the footnote.
> i would use footnote (at least for now) aslong as footnotes are on the same
> page i donot care to jump.

The problem is not with jumping (aka hyperlinks). It's that if you want to use
``\footnote``, you have to give the note's contents at the moment you
encounter the reference, i.e. when you visit the ``footnote_reference`` node.

But the contents are only defined once you've visited the ``footnote`` node,
which generelly comes *after* the reference!

Anyways, using ``\footnote`` is not an option, since in ReST, footnotes can be
multiply referenced, which is impossible in LaTeX if you use the ``\footnote``
command (AFAIK).

And, as I humbly want to state, the figure-footnote solution (as presented in
my previous mail) works, and allows the LaTeX writer to be fully ReST
compliant (as far as footnotes are concerned).

.. troll::
	"Donald, don't use footnotes in your books."
	-- Mrs. Donald E. Knuth, in 'The TeXbook, vol. 1'

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