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branch master updated: * doc/texinfo.texi (Footnote Commands): Revert re


From: Gavin D. Smith
Subject: branch master updated: * doc/texinfo.texi (Footnote Commands): Revert recent change. Change "printed manual or book" to "printed output formats".
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2022 17:36:44 -0400

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     new 6b6ad7a298 * doc/texinfo.texi (Footnote Commands): Revert recent 
change. Change "printed manual or book" to "printed output formats".
6b6ad7a298 is described below

commit 6b6ad7a29845276b351faa84a04d21ad3cf93a1a
Author: Gavin Smith <gavinsmith0123@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Mon Oct 17 22:36:37 2022 +0100

    * doc/texinfo.texi (Footnote Commands): Revert recent change.
    Change "printed manual or book" to "printed output formats".
---
 ChangeLog        |  5 +++++
 doc/texinfo.texi | 23 ++++++++++++-----------
 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index eaf9eb7e5c..7f9d2c5f91 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2022-10-17  Gavin Smith  <gavinsmith0123@gmail.com>
+
+       * doc/texinfo.texi (Footnote Commands): Revert recent change.
+       Change "printed manual or book" to "printed output formats".
+
 2022-10-17  Gavin Smith  <gavinsmith0123@gmail.com>
 
        * doc/texinfo.texi (Image Syntax): Remove word "usually".
diff --git a/doc/texinfo.texi b/doc/texinfo.texi
index 4fa4f333e9..4bf20a5009 100644
--- a/doc/texinfo.texi
+++ b/doc/texinfo.texi
@@ -8379,17 +8379,18 @@ being footnoted), so don't worry that it looks odd.  
(Another style,
 perfectly acceptable, is to put the footnote after punctuation
 belonging to the sentence, as in @samp{;@@footnote@{...}.)
 
-Where possible, the reference mark for a footnote is a
-small, superscripted number.  Otherwise, the reference mark
-for a footnote may be a pair of parentheses
-with the footnote number between them, like this: @samp{(1)}.
-
-In a printed manual or book, the text of the footnote appears at the
-bottom of the page, below a horizontal line.  In the HTML output, the
-footnote reference mark is rendered as a hypertext link to the footnote
-text. In Info, the reference mark is followed by a cross-reference link
-to the footnote text if footnotes are put in separate nodes
-(@pxref{Footnote Styles}).
+In printed output formats, the reference mark for a footnote is a
+small, superscripted number; the text of the footnote appears at the
+bottom of the page, below a horizontal line.
+
+In Info, the reference mark for a footnote is a pair of parentheses
+with the footnote number between them, like this: @samp{(1)}.  The
+reference mark is followed by a cross-reference link to the footnote
+text if footnotes are put in separate nodes (@pxref{Footnote Styles}).
+
+In the HTML output, footnote references are generally marked with a
+small, superscripted number which is rendered as a hypertext link to
+the footnote text.
 
 @cindex Critical editions
 @cindex Nested footnotes



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