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Footnote

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From: Brent Raymond CLARK
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 00:21
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It's great that Softwood still supports the amiga. I hope they can last
and not fold up before the power amiga is released. However, I'm sure there
is demand for footnotes in Final Writer.

I would suspect that the vast majority of Amiga users are now uni students who
first got a 500 in the late 80's as High School students. Any academic writing
requires footnoting. (endnoting is sometimes a poor substitute but virtually anyessays or journal submissions need footnoting).

I can't believe that we have gone over 10 years with only two amiga programmes
supporting footnotes. (excellence and WordPerfect which have now both gone the
way of the bullet).

I've heard a rumour that it would be to hard to implement into Final Writer but
that is nonsense. I'm sure you could hack the footer system to have a variable
height off the bottom of the page for each individual page. Hack the endnote 
system to reset for each page. (All you would need is a couple of linked lists
for each page) and voila Footnoting system!

Please consider!

Brent
bclark@hardy.ocs.mq.edu.au
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Subject: Footnote
Date: 16 Apr 1996 00:21:12 GMT
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