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From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Multiple references to a footnote in texi sources
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2022 10:13:12 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zgbqpa2v.fsf@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <837cyvpeay.fsf@gnu.org>

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> 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.

Sounds like a bit of overkill when the text is short, but thanks for the
idea.

Another suggestion I got was to put something like ~variable~
(=library.el=) and explain in the introduction that such notation
implies that the variable is only available upon loading the library.

-- 
Ihor Radchenko // yantar92,
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  reply	other threads:[~2022-12-14 10:13 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 [this message]
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
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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