Re: [Boost-docs] [quickbook] Reusing footnote

Subject: Re: [Boost-docs] [quickbook] Reusing footnote
From: Edward Diener (eldiener_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-12-29 14:47:57

On 12/29/2010 4:16 AM, Daniel James wrote:
> On 29 December 2010 07:10, Edward Diener<eldiener_at_[hidden]>  wrote:
>>>
>>> For a full native implementation, I'm not sure how to handle ids. The
>>> normal quickbook id mechanism would be pretty confusing.
>>
>> Why not have footnote ids in Quickbook be syntactically like table ids ? So
>> one could have '[footnote:myid The actual footnote]' and then later, to
>> duplicate the same footnote '[footref quickbook.phrase.footnotes.myid]'.
>> That would be cleaner than the anchor mechanism. Of course if phrase
>> elements do not have ids like block elements it will not work, which is
>> probably what you are telling me with your anchor proposed hack.
>
> That's pretty much what I meant by a native implementation. We can add
> ids to any element, but doing so is a breaking change (although an
> unlikely one, who'd start a footnote with ':'?) so they're normally
> done with a version switch. I'm thinking about making the parser a bit
> stricter about how it handles certain punctuation. Part of that could
> forbid starting element contents with an unescaped ':', so that the id
> syntax could be freely used anywhere in the future.

+1