X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["810" "Fri" "13" "December" "1996" "14:12:10" "+0000" "Padraig de Brun" "pdebrun@celt.dias.ie" nil "25" "Footnotes" "^Date:" nil nil "12" nil "Footnotes" nil nil] nil) Received: from listserv.gmd.de (listserv.gmd.de [192.88.97.1]) by mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id TAA13067; Sat, 14 Dec 1996 19:46:17 +0100 (MET) Received: from listserv.gmd.de by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <11.EDDC1B9E@listserv.gmd.de>; Sat, 14 Dec 1996 19:46:14 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 2766 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Fri, 13 Dec 1996 15:18:23 +0100 Received: from dana.celt.dias.ie (dana.celt.dias.ie [160.6.3.1]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.7.6/8.7.4) with SMTP id PAA04122 for ; Fri, 13 Dec 1996 15:18:14 +0100 (MET) Received: from celt.dias.ie by dana.celt.dias.ie id <02453-0@dana.celt.dias.ie>; Fri, 13 Dec 1996 14:12:11 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Message-ID: Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 14:12:10 +0000 From: Padraig de Brun Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: Footnotes Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 1776 The following occur in _Hart's rules for compositors_ 39th ed. (1983) 142: (b) One single-line note on a page should be centred; two or more single-line notes on a page should be ranged on the left, the whole being centred on the longest. (c) A short note may be set complete in the break-line of another note provided it is set full right, preferably with more than three ems between the notes. (d) Short notes may be run on in the same line with preferably at least 3 ems between them, the line being centred. Where there are several short footnotes, they should be ranged in columns with a minimum of a 3-em space between the longest lines in the columns. __________________________________________________________ How much of this could be automated for LaTeX? Padraig de Brun pdebrun@celt.dias.ie