bug in compressed linenotes (and two ideas about them)

bug in compressed linenotes (and two ideas about them)

[Pablo Rodríguez]

Hi Hans,

I'm afraid I found another bug in linenotes
(http://www.ousia.tk/compressed-linenotes.pdf and
http://www.ousia.tk/compressed-linenotes.tex).

When a compressed linenote is located at the beginning of the line, the
inbetween distance from \setupnote is suppressed, but the distance from
\setupnotation isn't. This happens either linenotes are in paragraph
form or not.

I have also three suggestions on the linenote spacing. I'd be highly
pleased that Thomas and Idris could comment on them, since they are the
experts on the topic.

The first one is more a question, because I'm not sure whether this is
already possible. Could I set a variable length in inbetween from
\setupnote and distance from \setupnotation? This would help better
spacing in linenotes. Sorry for asking, but I tried in the past and I
wasn't able to do it.

The other two suggestions are about enabling different spacing options
for compressed linenotes than the standard spacing for linenotes.

The sample shows that without separator, compressed linenotes have more
blank space than standard linenotes, since compressed linenotes without
separator have two added spaces without interruption. How about a
compresseddistance option that assumes there is no separator and sets a
single space?

In the sample, compressed linenotes are preceeded by a 2em space, where
standard linenotes are preceeded by a 1.5em space. Having more space for
compressed linenotes than for standard ones may be misleading in some
cases.

And even using a separator, being able to specify different distances
would be also extremely helpful, because it is not always the case where
separators need more space before than after (as line reference numbers
need). How about implementing two options such as compressedbefore and
compressedafter that would achieve this?

BTW, I tried to enclose the sample within a TEXpage, but it didn't
contain the linenotes. Is this intended or am I missing something?

Many thanks for your help,


Pablo
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