Integrating table footnotes into chapter flow.

[Alan Litchfield]

H'yall,

On 26/05/2012, at 5:14 AM, Stuart Rogers wrote:

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> I would suggest a refinement.  The objective is to have footnote numbers in the body text just before the table, which are visible when editing but do not take up any space and are invisible when printing. These footnote numbers have footnote text at the bottom of the page, and all the numbering of footnotes is automatically sequential.
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> The numbers are "faked" to appear as though they originate in table cells by cross-referencing to the Footnote paragraphs, in the way that Alan describes above.  (I'm not sure what advantage there is to inserting unique markers, Alan?  You can just x-ref to the Footnote pgf type and select the appropriate pgf.)

Yeah, that's a better way. Removes a step. However, still need to update numbering manually.

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> To prepare for visible/invisible toggling, View > Color > Definitions and create a new colour (e.g., TableFN).  Then View > Color > Views and in View 2, move TableFN to the Invisible column.  Simply toggle from one view to the other when you alternate between editing and printing.
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Still learning FM10-ways :)

> To use that visibility toggling and take up no space, create a tag for dedicated paragraphs that will contain only the table anchor and the footnote reference numbers intended to (re-)appear in the table. This tag should be set to Space Below of a negative value equal to the font size, and font colour TableFN (or whatever you called it).  (For usability by the next writer, you might give this tag an Autonumber string of "Placeholder for table footnotes" or other short explanation.)
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> In Table Designer, set the Space Above to the same negative number you used in Space Below in the anchoring pgf.  The combination of negative Space Above/Below will cause the table to overlap the anchoring pgf completely.
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> When editing a table with footnotes, temporarily make the anchoring pgf accessible by changing the table's Space Above to zero. In the anchoring pgf, insert as many Special > Footnotes as required by the table, typing the footnote text as usual. Then, in the table cells, insert cross-references to those Footnote pgfs.  When you're done, change the table's Space Above back to the negative number and toggle to colour view 2.


I thought about doing it that way, but didn't have time to test it, for example, if there are pagination issues. Glad to see that it would work.

Cheers
Alan
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