[Docutils-users] weird footnotes in the generated LaTeX

[Matěj Cepl]

Hi,

I have written a bit longer document using rST (all discussed
files are in https://mcepl.fedorapeople.org/tmp/harry_potter/),
and then convered it to LaTeX just with plain rst2xetex (using
0.13.1). The resulting file is
https://mcepl.fedorapeople.org/tmp/harry_potter/harry-potter-odpoved-brachovi.pdf
and the problem I have it is that footnotes are quite often not
on the page they referred to (see page 8 for an example). When
I just hand-edited the LaTeX file and replaced all
\DUfootnotetext & \DUfootnotemark constructs with plain
\footnote and suddenly all footnotes are placed correctly (as
expected from LaTeX; the file
harry-potter-odpoved-brachovi-hand_edited.pdf).

Is there some configuration or something which would persuade
docutils not to mess with footenotes and use plain \footnote{}
in LaTeX?

Thank you,

Matěj
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Post by Matěj Cepl
I have written a bit longer document using rST (all discussed
files are in https://mcepl.fedorapeople.org/tmp/harry_potter/),
and then convered it to LaTeX just with plain rst2xetex (using
0.13.1).

Mind, that despite the name, rst2xetex does not generate plain TeX for XeTeX
but LaTeX for XeTeX/LuaTeX (compile with `xelatex` or `xeluatex` commands).

Post by Matěj Cepl
The resulting file is
https://mcepl.fedorapeople.org/tmp/harry_potter/harry-potter-odpoved-brachovi.pdf
and the problem I have it is that footnotes are quite often not
on the page they referred to (see page 8 for an example).

This is a know problem of the LaTeX writer.

Post by Matěj Cepl
Is there some configuration or something which would persuade
docutils not to mess with footenotes and use plain \footnote{}
in LaTeX?

There is just a TODO entry in docs/dev/todo.txt:

* footnotes

+ True footnotes with LaTeX auto-numbering (as option ``--latex-footnotes``)
(also for target-footnotes):

- attach footnote text to footnote-symbol node
- write \footnote{<footnote text>}
- consider cases where LaTeX does not support footnotes
(inside tables, headings, ...)?
- consider multiple footnote refs to common footnote text.

The problem is that in the source, the footnote text is not known when the
footnote mark is parsed. We would need a transform to connect these so that
the footnote-mark is written as \footnote{<footnote text>}

Günter


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