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albie
Date:
August 29, 2009 15:42
Subject:
Re: early draft proposal for POD footnote syntax
Message ID:
7fabee1fc5ce4ce2ef3b20f26e34e37f.squirrel@alfarrabio.di.uminho.pt

> I think this wishlist item implies adding a footnote syntax to POD.
> how about "=foot" to identify a paragraph that will be a footnote, and
> f<> to indicate where the footnote asterisk goes.  Multiple paragraph
> footnotes are acomodated by =foot text always continuing to the next
> =cut., with labels, as an optional =foot LABEL, when provided getting
> associated with text inside f<LABEL> and unlabeled footnotes lining up
> sequencewise.

Footnotes are relevant in lots of situations.
Not sure this is the right syntax, but +1 on defining one.


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