As somebody who writes stuff in TEI from time to time and adds the  
occasional note, this sounds exactly right to me.


On Apr 25, 2006, at 4:16 PM, Martin Holmes wrote:

> Your use of the phrase "inlined footnotes" made me think. I'm  
> actually concerned with marking up / creating new documents in TEI,  
> most of the time; therefore there's no such thing, really, as a  
> footnote or an end note at all, there's just a note, and whether it  
> appears at the end or at the foot of a page depends entirely on  
> what rendering system is being used to make a particular form of  
> output. When you're marking up an existing physical text, though,  
> the placement of notes is more relevant -- although you still might  
> want to make them available as, for example, popups, in a Web  
> rendering of a page, rather than forcing users to scroll around. I  
> think when it comes to the creation of new documents, there's  
> nothing to beat the simplicity of putting a note in the exact  
> position of its relevance.
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
> Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>> Lou wrote:
>>> I think we may have been overly influenced (in P4) by the habit of
>>> markup systems like TeX to require placement of the <note> to be
>>> coextensive with its content.  This is good, in simple cases <note
>>> place="foot">like this</note> but rapidly becomes complex <note
>>> place="foot"><p>Here is a long list of imaginary difficult cases  
>>> where
>>> annotations have their own complicated internal structure
>>> <list><item>......</item><item>...... <pb
>>> n="123"/>...</item></list></p><p>Latex for example would be quite  
>>> happy
>>> to introduce a new chapter here</p></note> in others.
>> "habit" is an odd word. It's just a feature. I have done things  
>> like the
>> above many times, and it never seemed unnatural. What one's used  
>> to, I
>> suppose.
>> My bother is supporting both. If we support inlined footnotes, lets
>> support them throught. Else support standoff.
>> --
>> Sebastian "who can't remember the discussion in oxford that day at  
>> all"
>> Rahtz
>
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