Re: Footnote placement problems

["Giuseppe Bilotta" <oblomov@freemail.it>]

Well, I must say that (b) [text on notes] happens in normal cases (no nested
footnotes, no notes in objects, etc); (a) doesn't actually happen very often,
but I recently had (b) happening (solved by putting a \page[preference] before a
heading, thus moving heading and following text to next page).

Giuseppe Bilotta

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----- Original Message -----
From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: Giuseppe Bilotta <oblomov@freemail.it>
Cc: ConTeXt <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 10:17 AM
Subject: Re: Footnote placement problems

> At 04:14 PM 2/4/01 +0100, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >sometimes, especially when using *lots* of footnotes, some problems happen;
> >mostly
> >
> >(a) footnote text goes on the wrong page (next);
> >(b) text overwrites footnotes;
> >
> >I believe that in such cases, rather than letting these things happen,
> ConTeXt
> >should try as hard as possible to prevent them, even at the cost of heavily
> >underfull pages (signaled) [from my poor debugging I belive (b) happens when
> >ConTeXt attemps an *overfull* page to prevent (a)]. I know that footnote
> >handling is *extremely* difficult, but I think these problems should be
> issued
> >as best as possible.
> >
> >While browsing throught the core-not.tex code I found the reference to
> >\footnotelimit; if I understood correctly what it means, this should be
> set to
> >*false* to solve the two problems, when they arise. Am I correct?
>
> I'm working on some new otr macros, so part of it can be covered. The
> problem with 'moving' footnotes is partly due to the fact that deeply
> burried footnotes are not seen by tex and thereby are not taken into
> account by page break calculations. So, postponed notes are dangerous ones,
> which is why in for instance tables, i use local notes and attach them to
> the table (or fig).
>
> Hans
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