Andreas L. Delmelle wrote:
> Yeah, as an example: try reading some Postmodern Philosophy... Many pages
> that are filled for 75% with footnotes offering comments/notes on the ideas
> that appear on the other 25% (even pages containing nothing *but* footnotes,
> continued from a previous page). I guess it's not as much fun to read as it
> is to write layout code for handling those situations... :-)
Thanks for this example.
I modified the footnote handling, so at the moment:
- in "normal" situations, a content line is placed in a page together
with, at least, a piece of the first footnote cited in it
- if a page break defers (either totally or partially) some footnotes, the
first feasible break point after it has fewer constraints, in order to
avoid the creation of a page with no content lines
- if the page containg the last content line has no space for all
remaining footnotes, one or more pages are created to store them
I wrote some new testfiles (all of them passing) to show a wide range of
situations.
If this layout strategy is not correct, or you find some new example that
makes the algorithm fail, let me know!
Regards
Luca
