[Pkg-lyx-devel] Bug#198381: Could you please check if the new output is what you would consider a sane output

[Branden Robinson]

On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 03:00:57PM +0200, Sven Hoexter wrote:
> Hi,
> LyX 1.4.2 creates a different ascii output related to footnotes.
> I hope this new output is something you can agree to as a sane output.
> 
> A diff of the relevant part looks like this:
> 
> ---------cut----------
>  <Dear ...>
> 
> -This is a sample letterThis footnote gets placed very poorly in ASCII export..
> +This is a sample letter
> +
> +This footnote gets placed very poorly in ASCII export.
> +.
> 
>  <Yours sincerely,>
> -------cut------------
> 
> Would be nice if you could comment on this quite old bugreport.
> 
> When you're not ok with this new format please make a proposal I can
> post to the lyx-devel mailinglist.

On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 03:19:38PM +0200, Sven Hoexter wrote:
> Ouch I just recognized that the final dot is still in the wrong place.
> 
> Anyway would be nice no know if you agree with the rest.

Hi Sven,

Thanks for following up on this bug report, which is old, as you note.

The new behavior is a slight improvement, but as you note, the period is
wrongly placed.

I indeed don't really find the plain text export satisfactory.  The
footnotes probably need to be pushed onto a queue and then that queue
should be emptied when the document body is otherwise finished.
Furthermore, the footnotes should be numbered.

So I would expect output like:

---sample---
This is a sample letter[1].

This is another sentence[2] in the sample letter.

[1] This is footnote 1.
[2] This is footnote 2.

<Yours sincerely,>

cc: <cc>

encl: <encl>
---sample---

Thanks for taking over maintenance of LyX!

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