Re: New, Just a few questions.

[Jeremy Cowgar]

>  > 2.) Footnotes are plenty. Can I somehow format the footnotes in a 
>  > paragraph format instead of each footnote on it's own line? i.e.
>  > 
>  > 1) Footnote 1 2) Footnote 2 3) Footnote 3, etc...
>  > 
>  > instead of:
>  > 
>  > 1) Footnote 1
>  > 2) Footnote 2
>  > 3) Footnote 3
>  > 
>  > Most of the footnotes are very small, such as 1) Or your 2) Other mss 
>  > read "over the hill", etc... The average is probably around 4 words per 
>  > footnote.
>
> Lout cannot do this and there is no way that it will ever be able to
> do it.
>  
Hum. I have run into this many places. For instance, XSL-FO can't do it, 
Adobe Frame Maker can't do it, QuarkXpress can't do it. LaTeX has a 
package that allows you to do it, but you have to run through 100 passes 
to get everything to come out correctly.

Can anyone tell me why it's such a big deal? I don't quite understand 
it. Is their a different way to handle these footnotes? For instance, 
maybe margin notes or something? (although that would take up quite a 
bit of extra room across 1000 pages)

Thanks,

Jeremy