Jon Ericson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If you look at the patch you will see that it does exactly what you
> suggest, except that the footnote IDs are limited to digits and stars.
> For converting to text, the limitation isn't really needed. But I
> imagine some formats would need to know if the N<> contained the note
> text or just an ID. Also I think star and digit footnote IDs look
> better in unformatted pod.
> Since the footnote ID is arbitrary anyway, what's wrong with numbers?
They're hard to remember. Is there any drawback to allowing arbitrary
tags? People can always use numbers if they think they look better.
(Thanks for the patch!)
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Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
