On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 11:41:09AM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote: > On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 03:59:04PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > > What is not good is that the hyperlink takes you to a page which has all > > the footnotes for the entire chapter on it, so you have to scroll to find > > the right one. What *should* happen is that the hyperlink should pop up > > the footnote over the top of the body text. Bah. > Another way[1] is to have the footnote immediately below the paragraph > ini which it appears.
Eeeuuww, no thanks! That would detract from the flow of the body text. I only bother with footnotes if it's a note on something I find particularly interesting. Of the chapter of Gibbon I'm reading right now, I have read less than five footnotes. The last one I read was footnote no 75. I do not fancy having 70 uninteresting footnotes splattered across the text. > I think you can also include the footnote as a tool tip or similiar so > it appears on a mouseOver. You assume too much of the platform :-) Peanutpress deal in books for the Palm (and, I think, some WinCE crap). Neither platform has a mouse, and the Palm doesn't, AFAIK, have tooltip widgets. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Considering the number of wheels Microsoft has found reason to invent, one never ceases to be baffled by the minuscule number whose shape even vaguely resembles a circle. -- anon, on Usenet
