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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
Subject: Re[3]: Reference + footnote = bug
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 16:53:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20021217164826.028f0e00@server-1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <12720310404.20021217151942@iol.it>

At 03:19 PM 12/17/2002 +0100, you wrote:
>Tuesday, December 17, 2002 Hans Hagen wrote:
>
> >>Ok, I give up: is there some way to do extra manipulation on the
> >>previous word? (like, making it a reference, or something)
>
>HH> Can you be more explicit on what you want to achieve?
>Consider:
>
>This word\footnote{with a footnote} has a footnote
>
>Now, when producing DVIs, the foonote number (hyer)linked to the
>footnote would suffice. When creating PDFs I would prefer the
>footnote to be turned into a tooltip (this I already did) and the
>word to be turned into the active area, i.e. a result similar to
>\tooltip{footnote}{with a footnote}.

it is still on my agenda to make something generic for that

>I can do this by defining a command \xfootnote{word}{with a
>footnote} that gives either of the two results in each case, but
>it would be nice if it was possible without changing the sources.

the problem (well not that big a problem since it's seldom needed) is that 
one cannot look back into the input stream over the word; so indeed 
something with multiple args is needed, although clicking on some symbols 
is ok too

Hans
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      reply	other threads:[~2002-12-17 15:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-12-16 21:33 Giuseppe Bilotta
2002-12-16 22:50 ` Otared Kavian
2002-12-17  9:00   ` Hans Hagen
2002-12-17 10:00   ` Re[2]: " Giuseppe Bilotta
2002-12-17  9:18 ` Hans Hagen
2002-12-17 10:15   ` Re[2]: " Giuseppe Bilotta
2002-12-17 11:07   ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2002-12-17 14:09     ` Hans Hagen
2002-12-17 14:19       ` Re[3]: " Giuseppe Bilotta
2002-12-17 15:53         ` Hans Hagen [this message]

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