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12.3.2 Footnote Styles
Info has two footnote styles, which determine where the text of the footnote is located:
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In the ‘End’ node style, all the footnotes for a single node are
placed at the end of that node. The footnotes are separated from the
rest of the node by a line of dashes with the word ‘Footnotes’
within it. Each footnote begins with an ‘(n)’ reference
mark.
Here is an example of the Info output for a single footnote in the end-of-node style:
--------- Footnotes --------- (1) Here is a sample footnote.
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In the ‘Separate’ node style, all the footnotes for a single
node are placed in an automatically constructed node of
their own. In this style, a “footnote reference” follows
each ‘(n)’ reference mark in the body of the
node. The footnote reference is actually a cross reference
which you use to reach the footnote node.
The name of the node with the footnotes is constructed by appending ‘-Footnotes’ to the name of the node that contains the footnotes. (Consequently, the footnotes’ node for the ‘Footnotes’ node is ‘Footnotes-Footnotes’!) The footnotes’ node has an ‘Up’ node pointer that leads back to its parent node.
Here is how the first footnote in this manual looks after being formatted for Info in the separate node style:
File: texinfo.info Node: Overview-Footnotes, Up: Overview (1) The first syllable of "Texinfo" is pronounced like "speck", not "hex". …
Unless your document has long and important footnotes (as in, say, Gibbon’s Decline and Fall …), we recommend the ‘end’ style, as it is simpler for readers to follow.
Use the @footnotestyle
command to specify an Info file’s
footnote style. Write this command at the beginning of a line followed
by an argument, either ‘end’ for the end node style or
‘separate’ for the separate node style.
For example,
@footnotestyle end
or
@footnotestyle separate
Write an @footnotestyle
command before or shortly after the
end-of-header line at the beginning of a Texinfo file. (You should
include any @footnotestyle
command between the start-of-header
and end-of-header lines, so the region formatting commands will format
footnotes as specified.)
In HTML, when the footnote style is ‘end’, or if the output is not split, footnotes are put at the end of the output. If set to ‘separate’, and the output is split, they are placed in a separate file.
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