[Scribus] Thoughts on footnotes

dwain dwain.alford
Sat May 12 22:01:51 CEST 2007


Thomas Zastrow wrote:
> dwain schrieb:
>   
>> Marek Laane wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> Well, most word processors make quite clear difference: footnotes and 
>>> endnotes. And quite common are books where both are used, e.g 
>>> (bibliographical) references in the end of the text/book and explanatory 
>>> notes under the pages. So ideally Scribus should support both types: 
>>> footnotes that are placed on same page of the referenced text, and endnotes 
>>> in the end of text/document.
>>>
>>>
>>>   
>>>     
>>>       
>> i don't view scribus as a word processor, but i will agree that scribus
>> should support both.
>>
>>   
>>     
> In Scribus:
>
> a) Footnotes: in the same text frame / chain of frames
>
> b) Endnotes: In an extra frame.
>
> Best,
>
> Tom
>
>
>   
ok.  i see a footnote as a separate frame outside the original document
content.  so i guess that i would see it in a chain of frames as as an
extra frame where the document text would flow around the footnote
frame.  am i missing something here?

dwain

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