> Dear all, > > I'm not able to read french, but I want also to give my 2 cents on > footnotes. Please don't misunderstand me, I don't want to push the > developers in a special direction, but when we have math formulas > from > the GSOC project, there are just footnotes missing and I'll write my > dissertation in Scribus ;-) > > So, this are just some thoughts I had: > > Footnotes are a floating element. In contrast to (Scribus-) Frames > with > *absolute* positions, their positions are *relative*. In fact, > there is > just one rule for footnote's positions: they have to appear on the > same > page as the text where they were introduced. > > With Scribus' frame system, it is in my oppinion not possible to > realize > traditional footnotes because the frames positions are absolute. But > Scribus also has a floating element: the text itself in frames. > Think of > how chained text frames are working: depending on the necessities, the > text flows from frame to frame. > > Perhaps this can be used for implementing footnotes in Scribus not the > traditional way, bounded to the page, as it is done in LateX, XSL FO & > co. Doing it the Scribus way, footnotes can be bound to the frame and > not the page. To illustrate this, I build a small example: > > http://www.thomas-zastrow.de/temp/ScribusFootnotes.pdf > > Doing it this way, it would be necessary to split the available > space in > frames into two parts: one for the text at the top and one at the > bottom > for the footnotes. At first, the size of the footnote part has to be > calculated and than the rest is for the text. If this results in > another > segmentation of the footnotes, the procedere of calculating the space > has to start again. > > Just 1.5 cents :-) > Hmmm ... just another thought - floating objects? It's not necessarely only footnotes but can be images, additional notes, etc. I don't know if this possibly would infringe any adob* copyrights but they use floating anchored objects within InDes*gn. Think it's not a really bad concept wich in one way or another might be adopted?
For footnotes one might use a special text-formatting for the footnote numbers in the text and let a script find out to which page it does belong and move the belonging text or text boxes (with footnotes) to this page (static position relative page). Sure, I don't and would never know how to. But anchored relative or relatively anchored objects? (relative to text and/or page position) Sounds like traditional *automated* layout for me. I do this a lot manually. Jon
