Hi Peter,
Peter Salazar cycleofs...@gmail.com writes:
I had a thought. So, I export most of my org files to both HTML and
PDF. I was thinking that for HTML, the behavior of putting footnotes
at the end of the document, as you would for a printed page, is a bit
outdated. In a printed document, you put the footnotes at the end
because you have to. But with HTML, it doesn't really make sense to
make the user click through to the bottom of the document in order to
discover the footnote content. It would be more in keeping with the
spirit of hypertext to create a tooltip that the user could hover
over and view the content instantly inline.
This is trivial to implement using CSS3:
http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2012/11/
how-to-create-a-simple-css3-tooltip/
Trivial but a bit heavy -- at least this is not an option for the
default HTML exporter, which tries to stick to the Old Good Way®.
and only slightly more complicated using jQuery:
http://www.chillwebdesigns.co.uk/chilltip
I was thinking about trying to create a way for org-mode to
automatically create tooltips from footnotes, but I'm a beginner, so
before I take a crack at it, I thought I would ask: has anyone
already done this?
Or, does anyone have ideas about how to easily automate this behavior
using org export to HTML?
I don't know, but I think this would make a great entry for the
Org hacks page! Good luck,
--
Bastien
