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 09:49:27 +0200 Message-ID: <83sfhhksxk.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87h6xzcyz7.fsf@localhost> <83edt3phlx.fsf@gnu.org> <87tu1zbf6d.fsf@localhost> <87359iqosn.fsf@localhost> <87len9w9w6.fsf@localhost> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="26975"; 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 08:50:22 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 1p5j0Y-0006nr-06 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 15 Dec 2022 08:50:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1p5izl-0000uU-25; Thu, 15 Dec 2022 02:49:33 -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 1p5izj-0000tz-0P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Dec 2022 02:49:31 -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 1p5izh-0006zG-He; Thu, 15 Dec 2022 02:49:30 -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=iFx8sfo12Iki4lyNfGyQGpWSzDiG3b0Jua+wjrYh+2k=; b=jCYYaaEOnQUP doPu+3HXLoAmPaXeVV4CFkF92pr1i3bhabISCmZU0g29Uix23gUp8kpkZHPca26nGIEyhdM7u1vsA 5qJ3prMG849C+Y0oXLPnLJP3o21FNdYGtmYEIab6VIF42H76KXWDOIyAgEPZXso3xnEXZZu6BduGR N//vCxOOPq6SJKS3U5LW0ZklKpXlKrqBGwkB39lzIMUwN6rSvuYZEDubxPPhRe2vUcKGKsB2Iz21S +CQoTVluRjwsPJVa2q0YkmNRbHeuPvtzi7gIAzbmK0X4xMVvKMafKEj5YBCHQEJzjcLNzKvuuQxXI bu4m4ky+v8PFvEV42cKpoQ==; 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 1p5izg-0004pN-Ky; Thu, 15 Dec 2022 02:49:29 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87len9w9w6.fsf@localhost> (message from Ihor Radchenko on Thu, 15 Dec 2022 04:47:37 +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:301443 Archived-At: > From: Ihor Radchenko > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , 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.