[Doc-SIG] auto-numbered footnotes
David Goodger
dgoodger@bigfoot.com
Fri, 10 Aug 2001 00:28:37 -0400
I wrote:
> For auto-numbered footnotes, how about something like::
>
> Auto-numbered footnote ref: []_.
>
> .. _[] Here's the footnote. Of course, the order is all-important
> here. However, it's impossible to refer to this footnote a
> second time.
For consistency's sake, I think that anonymous auto-numbered
footnotes should be defined with ``.. _[#]`` and referred to
as ``[#]_``.
No matter how pretty the empty version is, the number sign mnemonic
is too useful.
/David
g'night!