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Conference thebay::joyoflex

Title:The Joy of Lex
Notice:A Notes File even your grammar could love
Moderator:THEBAY::SYSTEM
Created:Fri Feb 28 1986
Last Modified:Mon Jun 02 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1192
Total number of notes:42769

1010.0. "Creative Footnoting 101" by IMTDEV::DWENDL::ROBERTS$P (Reason, Purpose, Self-esteem) Wed Oct 14 1992 11:42

    How does one create a footnote with a terminal which doesn't support
    superscripts? My latest attempt (which I DON'T like) looks like:
    
    That's the way the money goes --
    Pop (see fn. 1) goes the weasel (see fn. 2)!
    
    They really ruin the rhythm of a song, don't you think?
    
    Dwayne
    
    Footnotes:
    1. "Pop" was a term meaning "pawn."
    2. The weasel was a hatter's tool.
    
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1010.1one solutionSUBWAY::BONNELLSave me, Powdered-Toast Man !Wed Oct 14 1992 11:4617
    I think DOCUMENT puts the footnote reference in square brackets, with
    no space after the word, if you request "line-mode" output (terminal or
    mail).
    
    e.g.
    
    
    That's the way the money goes --
    Pop[1] goes the weasel[2]
    
    Footnotes:
    [1] "Pop" was a term meaning "pawn."
    [2] The weasel was a hatter's tool.
    
    
    regards...
    ...diane
1010.2PASTIS::MONAHANhumanity is a trojan horseWed Oct 14 1992 13:0514
    	You can create the superscripts in many different ways. "If it
    can't be done in TECO it isn't worth doing". Your main problem is
    probably that your terminal cannot display the superscripts even though
    you have created them for the benefit of others.
    
    	How does �, �, � look on your terminal. That is superscript 1, 2
    and 3, created with compose key, and displayed on a VT220 terminal.
    
    	If you want to know how to create them with the hardware and
    software you have then you will have to tell us more about what
    hardware and software you use. If you want to display what you have
    created on your own terminal then it may not be possible. Most
    terminals manufactured during the last 7 or 8 years will display such
    characters, though.
1010.3use more asterisks?STARCH::HAGERMANFlames to /dev/nullWed Oct 14 1992 19:521
    
1010.4JIT081::DIAMONDbad wiring. That was probably it. Very bad.Wed Oct 14 1992 20:2115
    >How does �, �,  �look on your terminal.
    
    On my terminal, the portion from "does" to "ook" looks like:
    
    d  o  e  s  space  double-width-square-box  space  double-width-square-box
    space  space  double-width-square-box  o  o  k
    
    My terminal is a JDECterm terminal emulator running on a DS5000 station.
    The appearance was the same on a VT382 terminal following a 15-second
    delay, and the appearance is the same on an LN03 Plus printer also
    following a long delay.  All of these have been manufactured during
    the last 7 or 8 years.  Fortunately a workstation window does it
    without delay.
    
    -- Norman Diamond
1010.5PEKING::RANWELLJSmoke me a kipper...Thu Oct 15 1992 01:466
    If you find that "compose" key doesn't seem to work (as I did at first)
    it may be that you have to press and hold "compose" followed by
    pressing the space bar, then releasing both. Then type 1/2/3,etc,
    followed by ^
    
    Jon
1010.6PASTIS::MONAHANhumanity is a trojan horseThu Oct 15 1992 01:5317
    	The question was directed at the author of the base note. I think
    you know the problem with your terminal ;-) while he was asking for
    assistance. My diagnosis is that you have a terminal adapted for the
    Japanese character set, and I advise you to change it immediately
    before you get eye problems from looking at those
    double-width-square-boxes. Incidentaly, if they are double width and
    also square they must also be double height.
    
    	And while we are putting on pedantic hats, my grandfather was a
    schoolteacher in a British public school at the age of 16, and the
    headmaster required him to wear a top hat when he addressed the class.
    He thought that was a bit over the top(per) since he was only a couple
    of years older than the boys he was teaching.
    
    	(I don't think the author of the base note will mind me ratholing
    the topic a little since we have been exchanging more practical mail
    :-)
1010.7JIT081::DIAMONDbad wiring. That was probably it. Very bad.Thu Oct 15 1992 02:0410
    I have no eye problems with the double-width square boxes.  I used to
    be irritated with VT382 terminals, and remain irritated with LN03 Plus
    printers, for delaying ages before displaying the boxes.  And sometimes
    I can't figure out what the characters were supposed to be.  (For
    example, pound sign and unknown digit, followed by readable digits.)
    
    >Incidentaly, if they are double width and
    >also square they must also be double height.
    
    Nope.  Single width would be 8x16 pixels, not square.
1010.8Why Didn't I Guess <COMPOSE><SPACE>?IMTDEV::DWENDL::ROBERTS$PReason, Purpose, Self-esteemThu Oct 15 1992 07:348
    RE: .5 by PEKING::RANWELLJ
    
    <COMPOSE><SPACE> ???
    
    That� did� it�!
    
    Dwayne