Re: Doc: NR clarified \footnote command as a TextScript (issue 6137050)

[Trevor Daniels]

<address@hidden> wrote Friday, May 04, 2012 8:43 PM


> Ok, everybody will love me for my late thinking again.  But here we go:

:)

> we have two cases of footnotes: one that will attach itself to whatever
> happens at a given point of time, being an independent event.
> I propose we _always_ let
> them try to attach themselves as postevents/articulations, by defining
> the footnote command with define-event-function.  Then the - before the
> footnote call is optional, like it is with things like \p.
>
> I think that makes more sense to explain.

Definitely!

> Yes, it is a nuisance to
> rewrite the documentation _again_, 

Sorry James, but I agree with David - any simplification is well worth it.

@David: will you action the change?

> http://codereview.appspot.com/6137050/