Re: Footnotes/Endnotes: Have They Worked for Anyone?

From: itself_at_americanstate.org
Date: Wed Nov 26 2003 - 20:50:23 EST

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    > Woah, there, as an MLA-format kind of person, I'm thinking, "Let's not jump into a single style set." Abiword does need to remain flexible. Besides, what does Chicago know about style; have you *SEEN* the Picasso?
    >
    > -Eric

    Eric: You're right! There's no top-dog editorial stylesheet in North
    America, let alone worldwide, and I wouldn't want AbiWord to fall prey
    to a single stylesheet even if it were my favorite. Still, if there is a
    universe of stylesheets, there are some features of AbiWord that violate
    most of them -- and that long, centered footnote separator is one of
    them. (I'm pretty sure that MLA frowns on that, too.) Flexibility should
    be the standard -- but while AbiWord develops toward flexibility,
    immutable defaults shouldn't look weird in most style paradigms, like
    that separator line.

    (For now, you can export your AbiWord document into Word or WordPerfect
    or OpenOffice.org and the separator is automatically reformatted as
    short and flush-left; print from there.)

    I acknowledge that worrying about the length and justification of a
    footnote separator line is almost the perfect definition of "anal." But
    that's not trivial for someone who is choosing software to meet anal
    standards.

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