From: "Idris Samawi Hamid" <ishamid@colostate.edu>
To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: referencing footnotes in another place
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 17:46:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <op.t1u0gbw6nx1yh1@your-b27fb1c401> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A2A922AB-408F-4E67-841C-A632076905D7@di.unito.it>
Hi Andrea,
On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 17:22:09 -0700, Andrea Valle <valle@di.unito.it> wrote:
> Hi to all,
>
> the only thing I don't like in -TeX packages approach while writing
> is that I have to attach the footnotes to their indices.
> ConTeXt is so clever. Isn't there a way to store the footnotes in
> another place of the file (or in another file, that's the same) and
> referring to the in the text.
> When I have many footnotes in the source I get crazy to follow the
> body text.
>
> I mean, with an exemplum fictum
>
> This is my footnote\fn{myfn}, even if it's just my imagination
>
> so that there's a way to a have
>
> myfn = just a note
>
> Maybe with buffers?
> I'm an ignorant on the matter
Hmm, this is interesting. Basically this would involve something like the
bibliography module {tag + database}. Could be useful for organizing
things like critical-edition apparati.
OTOH for large projects this could get a bit unwieldy and unmanageable.
Better in my view is to use an editor that supports folding, use a
\start-stopfootnote macro, and fold them out of site when not needed (I
have this in the Notepad++ setup).
Another idea is a lua script that texexec could use to label and/or move
all the notes to a separate database for analyses or other processing.
It all needs thought...
Best wishes
Idris
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-16 0:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-16 0:22 Andrea Valle
2007-11-16 0:46 ` Idris Samawi Hamid [this message]
2007-11-16 0:52 ` Idris Samawi Hamid
2007-11-16 1:08 ` Andrea Valle
2007-11-22 9:02 ` Andrea Valle
2007-11-22 13:20 ` Aditya Mahajan
2007-11-22 14:03 ` Andrea Valle
2007-11-23 1:53 ` Aditya Mahajan
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