Alan

Well ... I guess I would throw this back at you. How much support for technical reports and ebooks do the docutils developers wish to provide? I consider those outputs natural for docutils. And I'd love to be able to turn on an epub option and get <aside epub:type="footnote" role="doc-footnote"> (assuming such pairing is still allowed). Anyway, I find the doc roles particularly appropriate for the output of docutils.

Hmm, yes. Then it seems like this should be communicated by an option (e.g., --use-endnotes). Staying close to the digital-publishing standards is a high payoff.

Hmm, yes. Then it seems like this should be communicated by an option (e.g., --use-endnotes). Staying close to the digital-publishing standards is a high payoff.

Must the role be part of the element definition? It would be nice to stay close to the digital-publishing standard. (Aside: in principle, multiple roles are possible.)

Should the roles become doc-footnote and doc-noteref? See https://www.w3.org/TR/dpub-aria-1.1/ Alan Isaac

allow omission of citations (rst2latex with --use-bibtex option)

VOTE: gretl

A book title ending in a question mark will still be followed by a period.