From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Multiple references to a footnote in texi sources Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2022 10:54:26 +0200 Message-ID: <83pmclkpx9.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87h6xzcyz7.fsf@localhost> <83edt3phlx.fsf@gnu.org> <87tu1zbf6d.fsf@localhost> <87359iqosn.fsf@localhost> <87len9w9w6.fsf@localhost> <83sfhhksxk.fsf@gnu.org> <878rj9w0w4.fsf@localhost> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="27464"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: stefankangas@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ihor Radchenko Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 15 09:55:25 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1p5k1V-0006ya-8W for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 15 Dec 2022 09:55:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1p5k0g-0006AV-7a; Thu, 15 Dec 2022 03:54:34 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1p5k0b-0006A9-IU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Dec 2022 03:54:32 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1p5k0b-0008LA-7R; Thu, 15 Dec 2022 03:54:29 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=tOsKjGoFXFoMG/eQyIIDd44VYpdRXzjgyoo1qmOpatA=; b=CJGQwwyWwHtv ha//6lsGiffSpPvpuDRyV/APoQsHJ0OdRqjCYIgJFnI6RG5+Hg5416iqmK3YqdEov8gm+z+Yayquj 3ex+6E3qRoB+Czr5AQiOKQF9c2oD5PnhBPmD42PINGB+OEmXvZMFXfZjF9WDTjpyMNiv4uq3Kt8uv qlhAr6qbaJLBUugPCERIikK9vDZU6KJMwsEcO3IeY6nNLnl8WVOWUy3Sm4A+jmJPGprSv6h91V1fU 2bWZvxKdVcyBL4W20J70TpNHdFiNOF4o46oxxjb31TGPk1VbnxBIxAkR8nnh+sJ5+3Fw3xp5Ss2/C jqBf1xAxyKlM/LJQKh7chQ==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1p5k0a-0001Ml-FF; Thu, 15 Dec 2022 03:54:28 -0500 In-Reply-To: <878rj9w0w4.fsf@localhost> (message from Ihor Radchenko on Thu, 15 Dec 2022 08:02:03 +0000) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:301447 Archived-At: > From: Ihor Radchenko > Cc: stefankangas@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2022 08:02:03 +0000 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > >> But such footnotes look strange when referenced sequentially - texinfo > >> displays two identical footnotes one after another. > > > > In my book, this means a footnote is a wrong means to handle these > > cases. If you are talking about a reference to book or a URL, there > > are other ways of doing that which don't use @footnote. I'm guessing > > people think they should use @footnote because the have something like > > footnote-mode in mind. But that's superficial similarity, based on > > the presence of the same word and on nothing else. > > Note that LaTeX does support multiple footnote references and such > footnote referencing style is a common practice in some research journals. LaTeX is a general-purpose system for writing books and articles. By contrast, Texinfo is a more limited system aimed at writing software documentation. My comments should be read in the context of Texinfo and its purpose. > I do not agree that "multiple references" is a universally wrong idea. Feel free to disregard my opinions in this matter, but they are based on years of experience of writing Texinfo documentation. I'll let everyone who reads this make up their minds about the issue, but I made mine long time ago.