Dear all, I'm not able to read french, but I want also to give my 2 cents on footnotes. Please don't misunderstand me, I don't want to push the developers in a special direction, but when we have math formulas from the GSOC project, there are just footnotes missing and I'll write my dissertation in Scribus ;-)
So, this are just some thoughts I had: Footnotes are a floating element. In contrast to (Scribus-) Frames with *absolute* positions, their positions are *relative*. In fact, there is just one rule for footnote's positions: they have to appear on the same page as the text where they were introduced. With Scribus' frame system, it is in my oppinion not possible to realize traditional footnotes because the frames positions are absolute. But Scribus also has a floating element: the text itself in frames. Think of how chained text frames are working: depending on the necessities, the text flows from frame to frame. Perhaps this can be used for implementing footnotes in Scribus not the traditional way, bounded to the page, as it is done in LateX, XSL FO & co. Doing it the Scribus way, footnotes can be bound to the frame and not the page. To illustrate this, I build a small example: http://www.thomas-zastrow.de/temp/ScribusFootnotes.pdf Doing it this way, it would be necessary to split the available space in frames into two parts: one for the text at the top and one at the bottom for the footnotes. At first, the size of the footnote part has to be calculated and than the rest is for the text. If this results in another segmentation of the footnotes, the procedere of calculating the space has to start again. Just 1.5 cents :-) Best, Tom -- ---------------------------- http://www.thomas-zastrow.de German Forum - DTP under Linux: http://www.opendtp.de ----------------------------
