On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 10:44 PM, Terry Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, 4 Nov 2013 13:30:49 -0800 > Chris George <[email protected]> wrote: > > > rst has support for footnotes and citations. It also supports auto > > numbering. > > > > It depends whether you are using rst to markup your text or not though. And > > what your output format is. And whether you need the links live in the > > finished document or not. > > Yes - these are the most important questions - what's your end point? > Do you normally use a "plain text" writing system like rst or markdown > or LaTeX? I guess I was assuming you would be. Depending on the > answers to those questions...
My final outcome would be a printed text. Electronically, the last format before printing would have to be something like RTF or HTML -- a simple format supported by all wordprocessors and easy to edit (because someone other than me may need to modify the document at a later stage). I know about markdowns and LaTeX, but I don't need anything remotely as advanced and complicated. The only advanced feature that I need is an augmented footnote system. Were it not for that, I could simply use a wordprocessor. > > Naturally, I don't care much what the subnodes per se are called. However, > > setting their name as 1,2,3,A,B,C is convenient because the reference to > > such nodes, in the main text, would be the same string as the nodes' name. > > My thought was to use #provenance, #derivation, /piers-1967 etc. in the > para. text itself (with or without []), because this avoid the whole > complexity of whether you want to edit [2] that was in position 2 > before the note you just inserted, or the note that's in position 2 now > you've added [2] etc. > > So the final output would use [1], [2], [A], [B] etc., but the editing > would use a slightly more symbolic name. I see. It sounds good. I will probably follow your recommendation. Thanks again for the help -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
