Re: {quickbook] Footnotes

Eric Niebler <eric@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> David Abrahams wrote:
>> "Eric Niebler" <eric@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>>
>>> OK, done. Put your footnotes in a block like this: [footnote This
>>> is a footnote].
>> Any chance of separating footnotes from body text, as ReST allows?
>>     I'm writing along  and here[#footnote_ref] is a footnote.
>>     .. [#footnote_ref] This is the text of that footnote.
>
>
> That would be considerably more difficult, since it doesn't align very 
> well with DocBook's intrinsic support for footnotes. So for now, no.

Ah, no intermediate quickbook DOM.

Well, as long as we're being slaves to the DocBook structure, why not
have some standard syntax for new elements so we don't have to escape
to XML or modify the QB grammar every time we want to do something
new?  In fact, why isn't 

      [xxx ... ]

automatically equivalent to
      
      <xxx> .... </xxx>

when xxx is not already given special meaning by QB?

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
www.boost-consulting.com



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