Subject: Re: footnotes in Docbook and marginalia From: Ron Ross <ronross@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 13:09:53 -0500 (EST) |
>> That's an _old_ version. Newer versions support footnotes, but >> only as endnotes. Bottom-of-the-page footnotes aren't supported >> by the RTF backend. Thanks for your quick response, Norm. I'll download and install the newer version later today. | After much hacking of my own DTD and corresponding DSSSL stylesheet, I | have programmed a comment-like element whose appearance in the output | I can toggle on and off. When it is "on" it appears in small type as | marginalia, when "off" it's an '(empty-sosofo)' and disappears from | the output. >> Are you willing to post the DSSSL that does that, I can't think >> of any easy way to make marginalia in the RTF backend... O.K., now the truth will come out. The marginalia in my documents do not appear in a presentable fashion. But the purpose of my comment element is to provide *me* with pointers in the printout of a rough draft. Particularly, I could not get marginalia to work unless I also made the element a paragraph, and this invariably breaks the paragraph in which it appears. Fine, this gives me extra white space to make corrections;-). It suddenly strikes me now that I could probably forego the marginalia part, just making it the nested paragraph that it is and get the same result. Here it is: ;true (#t) if given as variable (-V) parameter to jade (define c-marg #f) (element C (if c-marg (make marginalia marginalia-sep: 12pt marginalia-side: 'end (make paragraph font-size: 8pt line-spacing: 8pt font-posture: 'italic start-indent: 6.1in end-indent: -1in quadding: 'start hanging-punct?: #t)) (empty-sosofo))) The result is a little strange, but I am relatively happy with it. It occurred to me that another way to get what I want would be to build tables or columns; but aside from the complexity of trying to get comments to match up with their lines of origin, the idea of disturbing the entire layout of a simple document didn't appeal to me. If you know of a better way.... But as your post suggests, you've probably tried, and the limitation probably comes from the RTF backend. In fact, Word Perfect (7 and 8) cannot display even this "marginalia": the paragraphs are broken and comments appear flush left. Wordpad is useless. So I rely on Microsoft's Word Viewer. Ron -- Traductions Ron Ross Translations http://www.colba.net/~ronross ronross@xxxxxxxxx "They were magical delusions, fireworks." -I. Murdoch DSSSList info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist
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