Re: enchanced Jade TeX backend

[Paul Prescod <papresco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

James Clark wrote:
> It does have a notion of footnotes.  However, Word has various expectations
> about footnote marks that cause some weirdness.

If there is a way through the weirdness, this feature would be of huge
benefit. I will probably have to switch to the TeX back end for
footnotes alone.
 
> It doesn't really have a concept of floats.  What it has instead is a
> notion of box/frame that is explicitly positioned with respect to the page:
> its page layout facilities really assume there's a human sitting there
> deciding where to position things.

I don't know about RTF, but in Word you can "anchor" a frame to a
paragraph.

 Paul Prescod



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