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Date:         Wed, 2 Mar 1994 11:57:43 +0100
From: Tim Van Zandt <tvz@core.ucl.ac.be>
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Subject:      A footnote environment
Status: R

Hello!

I would hope that the LaTeX3 is written so that any box
command can easily have an equivalent environment. This
is the only convenient way to include verbatim commands
and environments.

The obstacle to writing a verbatim environment for
LaTeX2.09 or LaTeX2e is that the \@makefntext command
takes as an argument all the footnote text. In practice,
at least in all the standard styles, the definition of
\@makefntext is something like:


  \def\@makefntext#1{%
    \parindent 1em\noindent\hbox to1.8em{\hss$\m@th^{\@thefnmark}$}#1}

So it is possible to make a verbatim environment that goes something
like this:

  \def\Footnote{%
    ...
    \insert\footins\bgroup
    ...
    \@makefntext{}\rule{\z@}{\footnotesep}\ignorespaces}
  \def\endFootnote{\strut\egroup}

But definitions of \@makefntext that insert something after
the footnote text will break this.

Perhaps \@makefntext should be split into

  \begin@makefntext
  \end@makefntext

without arguments?

Tim
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Timothy Van Zandt <tvz@Princeton.EDU>
Department of Economics, Princeton University
1993-1994: Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE)
           Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium