(texinfo) Footnote Styles

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(texinfo) Footnotes

 
 Footnote Styles
 ---------------
 
   Info has two footnote styles, which determine where the text of the
 footnote is located:
 
    * In the `End' node style, all the footnotes for a single node are
      placed at the end of that node.  The footnotes are separated from
      the rest of the node by a line of dashes with the word `Footnotes'
      within it.  Each footnote begins with an `(N)' reference mark.
 
      Here is an example of a single footnote in the end of node style:
 
            --------- Footnotes ---------
           
           (1)  Here is a sample footnote.
 
    * In the `Separate' node style, all the footnotes for a single node
      are placed in an automatically constructed node of their own.  In
      this style, a "footnote reference" follows each `(N)' reference
      mark in the body of the node.  The footnote reference is actually
      a cross reference which you use to reach the footnote node.
 
      The name of the node with the footnotes is constructed by
      appending `-Footnotes' to the name of the node that contains the
      footnotes. (Consequently, the footnotes' node for the `Footnotes'
      node is `Footnotes-Footnotes'!)  The footnotes' node has an `Up'
      node pointer that leads back to its parent node.
 
      Here is how the first footnote in this manual looks after being
      formatted for Info in the separate node style:
 
           File: texinfo.info  Node: Overview-Footnotes, Up: Overview
           
           (1) The first syllable of "Texinfo" is pronounced like "speck", not
           "hex". ...
 
   A Texinfo file may be formatted into an Info file with either footnote
 style.
 
   Use the `@footnotestyle' command to specify an Info file's footnote
 style.  Write this command at the beginning of a line followed by an
 argument, either `end' for the end node style or `separate' for the
 separate node style.
 
   For example,
 
      @footnotestyle end
 
 or
      @footnotestyle separate
 
   Write an `@footnotestyle' command before or shortly after the
 end-of-header line at the beginning of a Texinfo file.  (If you include
 the `@footnotestyle' command between the start-of-header and
 end-of-header lines, the region formatting commands will format
 footnotes as specified.)
 
   If you do not specify a footnote style, the formatting commands use
 their default style.  Currently, `texinfo-format-buffer' and
 `texinfo-format-region' use the `separate' style and `makeinfo' uses
 the `end' style.
 
   This chapter contains two footnotes.
 

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