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Dan Dascalescu  
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 More options Aug 5 2009, 12:52 am
From: Dan Dascalescu <ddascale...@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 21:52:06 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Wed, Aug 5 2009 12:52 am
Subject: BUG: Multiple references to the same footnote list the footnote repeatedly
I wanted to use the same named reference to support multiple
statements in one document, and found that the footnote was repeated
for each reference, and the number of the footnote anchor increased.

Test case at http://bit.ly/multiple_references_same_footnote_bug:

Text[^foo]

More text[^foo]

Other text

[^foo]: footnote

HTH,
Dan Dascalescu


 
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Fletcher T. Penney  
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 More options Aug 5 2009, 7:14 am
From: "Fletcher T. Penney" <fletcher.pen...@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 07:14:57 -0400
Local: Wed, Aug 5 2009 7:14 am
Subject: Re: BUG: Multiple references to the same footnote list the footnote repeatedly

I'm not sure that this is really a bug.

HTML doesn't really have footnotes, so what I did was create a
representation of a footnote (hence all the <span>'s and classes, etc).
  When converted to LaTeX (which is really why I added footnotes to
begin with), you would get a separate copy of each instance of the footnote.

This is entirely different than end notes, which MMD doesn't technically
support (by default - you can do whatever you want with XSLT).

I'll have to think about the proper behavior here - MMD doesn't do error
checking to be sure you *didn't* use the same footnote label more than
once, so it allows it. But you'll notice both instances have the same
id, so the the reverse links from the footnote back to the text don't
work properly....

F-

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Fletcher T. Penney  
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 More options Aug 24 2009, 3:00 pm
From: "Fletcher T. Penney" <fletcher.pen...@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:00:04 -0400
Local: Mon, Aug 24 2009 3:00 pm
Subject: Re: BUG: Multiple references to the same footnote list the footnote repeatedly

I think my "verdict" on this one is that in this case you should be
using citations instead of footnotes --- that's what they're there for.

In the case of true footnotes, I think the proper behavior is for the
footnote to appear each time it's used (that's what footnotes do - if
you have the same text in a footnote on different pages of a book, it
appears on each page as a separate footnote).

I am willing for people to try and sway me with alternate proposals, but
for now this is how I'll leave it.

F-

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