From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
Cc: stefankangas@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Multiple references to a footnote in texi sources
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2022 09:49:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83sfhhksxk.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87len9w9w6.fsf@localhost> (message from Ihor Radchenko on Thu, 15 Dec 2022 04:47:37 +0000)
> From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2022 04:47:37 +0000
>
> Well. It is what is already done then. Kind of.
> Because Org manual is written in Org and Org does allow multiple
> references to a footnote, we currently produce texinfo sources that
> contain 2 footnotes with identical text.
>
> 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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-12-15 7:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-12-13 11:41 Multiple references to a footnote in texi sources Ihor Radchenko
2022-12-13 13:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-13 13:34 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-12-13 14:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-14 10:13 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-12-13 19:08 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-12-14 10:10 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-12-14 21:58 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-12-15 4:47 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-12-15 7:49 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-12-15 8:02 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-12-15 8:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-14 12:47 ` Gregor Zattler
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