I think there is more difference than layout, although it does depend on what the author is doing. <marginalnote>Marginal notes are not the same as footnotes</> A marginal note is typically a summary or key point, while a footnote is typically additional information (such as bibliographic reference). At least in that scheme, they are semantically different.<footnote>Purely personal opinion.</>
At 09:37 AM 12/19/01 +0100, Yann Dirson wrote: >On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 08:35:10PM -0800, M. Wroth wrote: > > I agree that marginal notes are not sidebars, but neither are they > > footnotes. > >But both marginalia and footnotes are specific layouts for text that >is, semantically, a note attached to some point in the text. Whether >the rendering of this note shall produce one or the other layout >object is a matter style. > >OTOH, I does raise a question about the <footnote> name - it is the >name of a layout item, not of a semantic item, as already shown by the >"end notes" rendering. > >-- >Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alcove.com/ >Free-Software Engineer Ing�nieur Logiciel-Libre >Free-Software time manager Responsable du temps Informatique-Libre >Debian GNU/Linux developper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mark B. Wroth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
