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> From: Andreas =?iso-8859-1?q?R=F6hler?= <andreas.roehler@online.de>
> Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2008 09:51:20 +0100
> 
> 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.

How would that task (which I admit is hard for _any_ newcomer to _any_
sophisticated software package) be helped by whatever changes to the
Emacs maintenance are considered in this and other related threads?