Re: Adds automatic numbering to footnotes. (issue4244064)

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 1:20 PM, address@hidden
<address@hidden> wrote:
>> You realize that you may end up in an infinite loop for (rare)
>> degenerate cases, right? If anything, you should stop after the 2nd
>> pass.
>
> Good point - I can make the # of passes in the loop a variable w/ the default 
> as 2.
>
> However, for now, would you agree that the two-pass solution is better than 
> the alternative (too-wide / too-narrow spacing)?  Although I don't have much 
> feedback for where this would be useful, the one person who has given this 
> code a spin (Bertrand) and who is pretty invested in all things footnote 
> seems to like this system over a one-pass alternative (I'm not putting words 
> into your mouth, am I, Bertrand?).

Technically I much prefer the 1 pass solution, although it requires
constraints on how the marks are formatted (with padding space for
small numbers.)

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Han-Wen Nienhuys - address@hidden - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen