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Conference vaxuum::online_bookbuilding

Title:Online Bookbuilding
Notice:This conference is write-locked: see note 1.3.
Moderator:VAXUUM::UTT
Created:Fri Aug 12 1988
Last Modified:Mon Jul 15 1991
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:440
Total number of notes:2134

116.0. "Problem with <footref> inside <head>" by STAR::NELSON () Tue Apr 18 1989 12:58

When I process the following code for online, I get a notice that 
there may be a problem with footnotes -- and indeed there is!
When I click on this footref, I get no footnote. Instead, it 
takes me to the previous topic! Footnote refs work fine in the
rest of my book -- when they're not part of a <head>. 

  <head3>(OSI TRANSPORT LOCAL SERVICE PROVIDER <keep>(REMOTE SERVICE 
  PROVIDER) <keep>(Characteristic Attributes <footref>(1))\osi_rsp_chars) 
  <footnote_text>(1\ I demonstrate the use of footnotes on
  characteristics in this section. Note that the footnotes I show
  are not necessarily valid for the attribute they refer to here.
  This is just an example of the exceptions I plan to flag by using
  footnotes. The same symbol will always be used with the same
  footnote so that the symbol itself serves as a visual cue to
  users who are already familiar with the exceptional conditions.)

I don't know whether the length of this footnote is the problem 
here -- rather than the placement of the footref?

NOTE: My usage of this footnote ref is a temporary one and will
not be used in my manual, so this is not a critical issue for me.
I note it here FYI.
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116.1CLOSET::UTTTue Apr 18 1989 14:357
    The <FOOTREF> tag is in a <KEEP> tag and that's what's causing the
    footnote problem. We should look into this, but meanwhile, if you
    put the <FOOTREF> *outside* of the <KEEP> tag, you should be OK.
    
    Thanks,
    
    Mary
116.2Thanks! -- and more FYI detailsSTAR::NELSONTue Apr 18 1989 19:509
    I tried it and the footnote works fine outside of the <keep>.
    
    When it was inside <keep>, it also did disturbing things to the TOC.
    The footnote appeared in the left margin in front of the section 
    head. It also caused the bottoms of all the letters in the section
    head to disappear and it printed only the first line of a section
    head that normally wraps onto three additional lines in the TOC. 
    
    But your solution has fixed all that -- thanks!
116.3...the rub in hardcopySTAR::NELSONTue Apr 18 1989 20:0113
    OOps -- just checked my hardcopy and now I remember why I tried
    to put the footnote ref inside a <keep>. For some reason, the 
    footnote reference prints out on the next line in hardcopy.
    There's room for it at the end of the section header, but it
    wraps and prints at the left under the section head. I guess
    this is just another case where the solution for online is not
    the solution for hardcopy!
    
    As I mentioned in my first note, this is NOT a critical issue
    for me -- I have MANY items on my list above this one! But 
    just wanted to update you on the hardcopy side of the problem.
    
    Thanks again...
116.4Another repercussion in hardcopy...STAR::NELSONTue Apr 18 1989 20:218
    One more weird thing in hardcopy -- the footnote reference appears
    in the TOC -- regardless of whether it's coded inside or outside
    of <keep>. Online's got it right in this respect -- it does not
    put a footnote reference into the TOC as long as you keep the 
    footref tag outside the <keep>. I think this must be a bug in
    hardcopy -- we certainly don't want miscellaneous footnote 
    references showing up in the TOC.
116.5CLOSET::UTTWed Apr 19 1989 17:217
    I suggest putting that note in the DOCUMENT notes conference. The tag
    defs go to great pains to remove the footref char from the TOC --
    sounds like there may be a bug there...
    
    Thanks,
    
    Mary