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\footnotes and \refs
eichin@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (eichin@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Jun 8 13:44:16 1994
I'm converting another paper to HTML from LaTeX, and find that the
tricky parts are going to be the footnotes and perhaps the refs. The
last one I converted (my thesis) I simply inlined the footnotes as
parenthetical expressions, as there were only three or four of them;
however, the paper I'm doing now (With Microscope and Tweezers, which
Jon and I wrote 5 (6?) years ago) has a large number. Any ideas on how
to handle them? The best I've come up with are links to an end-notes
section or page (since most viewers don't do "back" from local links.)
For \ref and \cite, I can put in <a href> links, that's no problem...
the trick is figuring out what the tag wraps. Usually it's a
nonexistant number "(See Section~\ref{mkdir}.)" which I could fake
with the section name, but cites usually stand alone (though for the
ones in my thesis, I made up citation tags based on the bibliography
style and put in links on them, which is probably sufficient.)
