RE: Possibility to have more than one series of footnotes

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 05:34 PM 11/22/99 -0400, Steve Grathwohl wrote:
>Berend de Boer wrote:

>"EDMAC is a program written as a set of plain TeX macros for formatting
>complex critical editions.  You mark up your text and notes using the tags
>provided by EDMAC, and then TeX will create a beautiful book for you with
>the text line numbered, lemmata referred to by line-number, up to six
>layers of notes at the bottom of the page (variants, testimonia, etc.), as
>well as up to six sets of notes sent to appendices.  It is also possible to
>control the layout of each layer of notes separately: single column, two-
>or three-column, paragraphed, etc."

I wonder how they do the paragraph insert, since tex does not support them -) 

Anyhow, it sounds like a combination of blocks and buffers (already present) and multiple footnotes. Implementing classes of footnotes is no real problem, but in order not to break existing code, it is not a one hour hack either. 

Posing a limit on the number of classes seems unlogical, so we want as many levels as possible, each tunable in ways similar to the current one, of course working in columns, definable, start stoppable, optional being an end note, etc. I'll put it on my list of todo's.  

Hans

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