I have three questions about footnotes from an XSL FO persective:
1. The first is off-topic to XSL, but I expect to find the knowledge among
you. If a footnote number appears at the end of a sentence, should it be
before or after the period? I've seen both. Is it a matter of culture? Do
you prefer this?
...and a footnote.^1 Some more text...
Or this?
...and a footnote^1. Some more text...
What about footnote numbers before/after comma or colon? Or do you always
put footnotes numbers at the end of the sentence?
2. Sometimes there are more footnotes on one sentence:
...and three footnotes.^[1, 2, 3] <-- This means everything
inside the brackets are
in superscript.
The markup (abbreviated) may look like this:
<p>...and three footnotes.<note/><note/><note/></p>
So I need to put ", " between these. I've tried several ways, like:
<xsl:if test="following-sibling::not[1]">
<xsl:if test="local-name(following-sibling::*[1]) = 'not'">
Which is right?
3. I forgot the third question while writing. It will pop up when I send this.
Gustaf
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