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: Tue, 13 Dec 2022 16:29:41 +0200 Message-ID: <837cyvpeay.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87h6xzcyz7.fsf@localhost> <83edt3phlx.fsf@gnu.org> <87tu1zbf6d.fsf@localhost> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="7306"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ihor Radchenko Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 13 15:30:48 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 1p56Ix-0001lE-Om for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:30:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1p56IC-0006Fr-Jj; Tue, 13 Dec 2022 09:30:00 -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 1p56I3-0006EW-3j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Dec 2022 09:29:52 -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 1p56I2-0006Rf-Rt; Tue, 13 Dec 2022 09:29:50 -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=sdU24WKqWRt3PuGTsgpN0Ot5UaVacs5MEWnoEeYzDvw=; b=A3lze+G4tGTG mjiTSWg2yFIeaI7P7YgbY3riXe3wlCQDCHJKiFCY6RHIzTeK1esJzrBJ9t5324ns0POpUsd43ZCp6 NE3w2q79PUv9gjAVrafH0o54JP+pH1rGUUe58nr3wZiogHMLI7mIuQjxQETisZtXBmHktSQAzdOvo dA6jxcghdK4eVbLOrlizZGEyA2Ngq/hXJmRtNmkqntdNQf4DO0SAKywfDvRQux1u9OsjYru444GQq vg6GciXm0i/3wlNIvhSEuZDOnLJtyJv0RzT4zqjv2B3JF38/+7DILTTN7OQ3zo2NQoWGQo1eE+bYF 2ERPIMNY3hCOZQWZtSaDkw==; 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 1p56Ho-0002Fa-Ay; Tue, 13 Dec 2022 09:29:50 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87tu1zbf6d.fsf@localhost> (message from Ihor Radchenko on Tue, 13 Dec 2022 13:34:34 +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:301316 Archived-At: > From: Ihor Radchenko > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2022 13:34:34 +0000 > > > (It is really unusual to have several footnote references to the same > > footnote. Usually, you do this once, and then assume the reader > > already knows what the footnote says and doesn't need repetition.) > > In this particular case, I was writing a manual patch that clarifies > about some defcustoms not being available until the discussed library is > loaded. Multiple places in the manual can share the same footnote in > such scenario. In that case, I suggest to make the "footnote's" text a @node, and cross-reference to that node from each place that needs to do so.