From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Let a QA department into the works Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2008 03:09:18 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20080104164454.0A4BD830697@snark.thyrsus.com> <20080104232514.GB2735@muc.de> <200801050951.21101.andreas.roehler@online.de> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1199607560 29395 80.91.229.12 (6 Jan 2008 08:19:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 08:19:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andreas =?iso-8859-1?q?R=F6hler?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 06 09:19:41 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JBQjK-0001rh-6s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 09:19:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JBQix-0005JN-5u for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 03:19:15 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JBQfb-0002kg-Mo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 03:15:47 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JBQfY-0002hR-Vo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 03:15:46 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JBQfX-0002hD-SW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 03:15:43 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JBQfX-0004IE-QT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 03:15:43 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JBQZK-0001Wb-Js; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 03:09:18 -0500 In-reply-to: <200801050951.21101.andreas.roehler@online.de> (message from Andreas =?iso-8859-1?q?R=F6hler?= on Sat, 5 Jan 2008 09:51:20 +0100) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:86300 Archived-At: Entering Emacs from a common writers/translaters/publishers life, it took me hours if not days of desperate searching to realize: text-mode has no foot-note facilities integrated. Most of the time when people use footnotes they do so in text that is marked up (LaTeX, Texinfo, nroff). Would it be useful to add footnote commands to the corresponding modes?