Re: [skribilo-users] footnotes

[Ludovic Courtès]

Season greetings!  ;-)

Klaus Schilling <address@hidden> writes:

> With the html engine, I don't get footnotes to be printed as soon as
> the chapter markup is used, and the chapters are not delegated to
> another file.

Sorry I don't quite understand this sentence.  It seems there are two
parts:

  1. Footnote problem.  I can't see any problem, e.g., there are several
     footnotes in chapters of the User Manual that do get printed as
     expected.  See
     http://www.nongnu.org/skribilo/doc/user-2.html#chapter477 for an
     example.

  2. Chapters don't go to separate files.  AFAIK, this should work
     provided you either use `(chapter :file #t ...)' or set the
     `chapter-file' custom to `#t'.  Does that help?

> Also, is there a way to make footnotes that refer back to point in the
> running text that  referred to them, as do docbook footnotes? 

Yes, this should be easily feasible, good idea.  I'll look into it by
the next release.

> Maybe a ref in the footnote text with an appropriate handler option
> would do, but the handler stuff is not documented.

Right.  One could also use the `resolve' markup, which isn't documented
either, patches welcome!   :-)

An example of how this can be used:

  (ref :text [Ref to the parent chapter]
       :handle (resolve (lambda (n e env)
                          ;; Here, N is this node of the document.
                          (handle (ast-chapter n)))))

See?  Easy!  :-)

Hope this helps,
Ludo'.