From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
To: Sivaram Neelakantan <nsivaram.net@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Re: Footnotes and org-export, revisited
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 09:08:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <941701CB-A766-4917-B1B4-A5CE1B43AEDB@uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ud4fqd8k9.fsf@gmail.com>
On Dec 17, 2008, at 6:18 PM, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote:
> Paul R <paul.r.ml@gmail.com> writes:
>
>
> [...]
>
>> Can others express their views on pros and cons of the two following
>> usages :
>>
>> * Usage 1, anonymous footnotes
>>
>> Karate or karate-do is a martial art developed in the Ryukyu Islands
>> from indigenous fighting methods and Chinese kenpō[fn:: Kenpo is the
>> name of several martial arts].
>
> [...]
>
> And then we will have that one feature request to cross reference a
> previous footnote! :-) In the above case, how would a person go
> about asking someone to refer to an earlier footnote?
>
>> * Usage 2, keyword named footnotes
>>
>> Karate or karate-do is a martial art developed in the Ryukyu Islands
>> from indigenous fighting methods and Chinese kenpō[fn:kenpo]. It is
>> primarily a striking art using punching, kicking, knee and elbow
>> strikes
>> and open-handed techniques such as knife-hands and ridge-hands.
>>
>> [fn:kenpo] Kenpo is the name of several martial arts
>
> Unless I've got it wrong, wouldn't it be better to do something like
>
> [fn:kenpo { Kenpo is the name of several martial arts}]
> (keep the keyword and definition in one place?)
>
> And all future references go as 'see [fn:kenpo] to understand the
> meaning'. Presumably when exported, all these keywords stuff
> disappears and are replaced by standard LaTeX style footnote numbers,
> right?
>
> [...]
Hi Sivaram, I can see how this would be represented in
HTML (just several links to the same footnote), but how
would you represent this in LaTeX?
- Carsten
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-18 9:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-17 12:52 Footnotes and org-export, revisited Scot Becker
2008-12-17 13:28 ` Paul R
2008-12-17 13:31 ` Carsten Dominik
2008-12-17 15:29 ` Paul R
2008-12-17 15:59 ` Scot Becker
2008-12-17 20:54 ` Matthew Lundin
2008-12-17 22:23 ` Scot Becker
2008-12-17 16:08 ` Carsten Dominik
2008-12-17 16:32 ` Paul R
2008-12-17 16:58 ` Carsten Dominik
2008-12-17 17:25 ` Paul R
2008-12-17 17:18 ` Sivaram Neelakantan
2008-12-18 8:08 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2008-12-18 17:13 ` Sivaram Neelakantan
2008-12-18 10:34 ` Peter Frings
2008-12-18 10:55 ` Peter Frings
2008-12-17 14:04 ` Jörg Hagmann
2009-01-01 9:07 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-01-01 16:48 ` Matthew Lundin
2009-01-01 17:10 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-01-02 15:10 ` Matthew Lundin
2009-01-03 8:17 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-01-03 22:53 ` Matthew Lundin
2009-01-04 7:39 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-01-12 11:29 ` Scot Becker
2009-01-12 14:21 ` Paul R
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