Re: grouped sections and footnotes

["Wolfgang Schuster" <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>]

On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
> Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote:
>
>> I am using a module -- non-distributed as far as I know -- created by
>> Wolfgang. It provides grouped sectioning and footnotes:
>
> ...
>
>> a) Have you added support for grouped sectioning and footnotes in mkiv
>> yet?
>
> there are sectionworlds (core-swd) but i'm not sure if i will extend that in
> mkii (at some point i will freeze mkii in the sense that no new fundamental
> extensions will take place, only fixes and trivial extensions)
>
> i'm working on a new sectioning mechanisms for mkiv (way more info to be
> carried around) but i need to make sure that it also provides proper
> downward compatibility (such mechanisms are rather interwoven with lists,
> numbering etc)
>
>> b) Does the above code seem safe for mkiv?
>
> looks harmless enough to be safe

Do you want to criticise my code :-)

>> c) (For Wolfgang:) Has the above code been updated or extended etc. yet?

No, I never extended the code because I never used it myself.

> i hav eno problems with grouped notes in the core, but it need to be done
> differently
>
> - the proposed code assumes an already defined note

Right but there is no other way to do this in a module.

> - best do this combined with the normal definition
>
> so .. in core-not we then have:
>
>  ....
>  ....
>  \unexpanded\setvalue{\currentnote}{\setnote[#1]}%
>  \unexpanded\setvalue{\currentnote\v!text}{\setnotetext[#1]}%
>
> \unexpanded\setvalue{\e!start\currentnote}{\dodoubleempty\dostartcurrentnote[#1]}%
>  \unexpanded\setvalue{\e!stop\currentnote}{dostopcurrentnote}}
>  \setupnote[\currentnote][#2]}
>
> \def\dostartcurrentnote[#1][#2]%
>  {\setnote[#1][#2]\bgroup\ignorespaces}
>
> \def\dostopcurrentnote
>  {\removeunwantedspaces\egroup\noteparameter\c!next}

Wolfgang
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