* Re: endnotes: ! Dimension too large. ?? (another attempt)
@ 2004-01-12 15:23 Steffen Wolfrum
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From: Steffen Wolfrum @ 2004-01-12 15:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
Hi,
still searching for a working solution how to deal with my 757 footnotes
I tried to avoid the error by using buffers.
But again: ! Dimension too large.
Is there really no way of emptying that "cache" -
and maybe split it in footnote 1-350 and footnote 351-757?
Thank you,
Steffen
Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
> At 01:09 10/01/2004, you wrote:
>
> >OK, I have more than 700 footnotes - but when using "location=page"
> >everything works fine.
> >
> >I was trying to find whether there is something missing when I just
> >continue, and I found the TableOfContent is cut.
> >But the text and the footnotes as well seem to be OK.
> >
> >
> >Is there a patch helping me to avoid this error?
>
> Why not use the following mechanism:
>
> \starttext
>
> \definelist[MyNoteList]
>
> \newcounter\MyNotes
>
> \long\def\MyNote#1%
> {\ifhmode\unskip\fi
> \doglobal\increment\MyNotes\relax
> \high{\MyNotes}%
> \expanded{\writetolist[MyNoteList]{\MyNotes}}{#1}}
>
> \dorecurse{1000}{test \MyNote{Whow, another note}\endgraf}
>
> \page \placelist[MyNoteList][criterium=text]
>
> \stoptext
>
> You can format the list any way you like, e.g.:
>
> \def\MyNoteList#1#2#3{#1\quad#2\endgraf}
>
> \placelist[MyNoteList][criterium=text,command=\MyNoteList]
>
> also, you can now cal lthem per chapter,
>
> \placelist[MyNoteList][criterium=chapter]
>
> etc
>
>
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