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Re: balloontext and footnotes - what's the difference?
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Re: balloontext and footnotes - what's the difference? |
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Sun, 24 Jul 2011 20:58:31 +0200 |
On Jul 24, 2011, at 7:01 PM, James Lowe wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Sorry to seem to be obsessing about 'footnotes', it's just that when one does
> start to look at all the nuances of a new function to make clear
> documentation, one's focus does become a bit tunnel-vision-like.
>
> Looking at NR 1.7.2 (Balloon Text) and my proposed patch
>
> http://codereview.appspot.com/4751045/ for Footnotes;
>
> I'm wondering now what the *real* difference between the two are, other than
> \footnote[Grob] lets you add a footnote to a balloon text - albeit without
> the 'balloon'.
>
> Is this just the same core function with a 'bit of extra' either way - where
> the intersect is that I get annotated grobs/text - and the non-intersect
> parts of this Euler diagram is that one has a balloon around it or one has a
> footnote attached to it? Now if I can just add \box markup to a
> \footnote[Grob] then why is this significantly different to balloon text, and
> if not different shouldn't we be deprecating balloon text or modifying
> \footnote[Grob] and incoporating them into balloon text from a code point of
> view?
>
I would not at all be adverse to deprecating balloons - it is relatively easy
to do and would require a trivial change around line 238 of system.cc.
What do others think of this?
Cheers,
MS