https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2881
Bug ID: 2881
Summary: footnotes in documentation
Product: Exim
Version: 4.95
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: wishlist
Priority: low
Component: Documentation
Assignee: unallocated@exim.org
Reporter: jgh146exb@wizmail.org
CC: exim-dev@exim.org
It would be nice in some places to describe an abstruse point in a separate
subsection close to the main text. Traditionally footnotes are useful for
this sort of thing.
Xfpt supports footnotes, with .footnote / .endnote
- and this works though to .pdf output. Html is the problem, because we
are outputting mega-size chapter-size pages; a footnote there would be
too far away from the text visually. Presumably due to this, the .html output
just leaves the "footnote" text in-line.
I've not checked the .ps output.
We could use some other way of distinguishing that text, in .html output.
- a separate html page, hyperlinked from a footnote-marker
- sidebar text, perhaps in smaller font and/or on a different background,
right-justified and not fullwidth,
perhaps with the main text wrapping around
The former would be more small-screen (ie. mobile-phone) friendly
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Bug ID: 2881
Summary: footnotes in documentation
Product: Exim
Version: 4.95
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: wishlist
Priority: low
Component: Documentation
Assignee: unallocated@exim.org
Reporter: jgh146exb@wizmail.org
CC: exim-dev@exim.org
It would be nice in some places to describe an abstruse point in a separate
subsection close to the main text. Traditionally footnotes are useful for
this sort of thing.
Xfpt supports footnotes, with .footnote / .endnote
- and this works though to .pdf output. Html is the problem, because we
are outputting mega-size chapter-size pages; a footnote there would be
too far away from the text visually. Presumably due to this, the .html output
just leaves the "footnote" text in-line.
I've not checked the .ps output.
We could use some other way of distinguishing that text, in .html output.
- a separate html page, hyperlinked from a footnote-marker
- sidebar text, perhaps in smaller font and/or on a different background,
right-justified and not fullwidth,
perhaps with the main text wrapping around
The former would be more small-screen (ie. mobile-phone) friendly
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