On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Tomas Frydrych wrote:
>
> (1) Where in the PT will the text of these notes be stored? Are we
> going to have it embeded within the main text after the footnote
> marker (I think that's what rtf does), or, are we going to have it in a
> separate section, say, at the end? I think I would go with the
> former, and seems to me that is what you are proposing, right?
>
In the main run of frags like regular text. We'll have to write
special case code in fv_View for these notes.
> (2) With regard to the container classes, I wonder whether it might
> not be worth to have a base container class for the notes, from
> which to derive the footnote/endnote containers; it might make it
> easier to add other note containers later on, say margin notes.
>
It's not clear that they have sufficient commonality that such a
base-class would do anything useful. Other than general principles do you
have an idea for which methods they should share?
> (3) I would like the notes designed in a way that would allow to
> have several independent sets of footnotes running through a single
> document (say, one using roman numerals and one arabic ones).
> This is one thing that Word cannot do, and I could make much use
> of. It should not be too hard, just each note fragment needs to
> carry an ID of the set it belongs to.
>
That should be no problem. We can resuse a lot of the fl_AutoNum
stuff to handle and particular intermingling of number types.
Cheers
Martin
