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<span id="Footnote-Styles-1"></span><h4 class="subsection">10.3.2 Footnote Styles</h4>
<p>Info has two footnote styles, which determine where the text of the
footnote is located:
</p>
<ul>
<li> <span id="index-End-node-footnote-style"></span>
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 ‘<samp>Footnotes</samp>’
within it. Each footnote begins with an ‘<samp>(<var>n</var>)</samp>’ reference
mark.
<p>Here is an example of the Info output for a single footnote in the
end-of-node style:
</p>
<div class="example">
<pre class="example">--------- Footnotes ---------
(1) Here is a sample footnote.
</pre></div>
</li><li> <span id="index-Separate-footnote-style"></span>
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 ‘<samp>(<var>n</var>)</samp>’ reference mark in the body of the
node. The footnote reference is actually a cross-reference
which you use to reach the footnote node.
<p>The name of the node with the footnotes is constructed
by appending ‘<samp><span class="nolinebreak">-Footnotes</span></samp>’<!-- /@w --> to the name of the node
that contains the footnotes. (Consequently, the footnotes’
node for the <samp>Footnotes</samp> node is
<samp><span class="nolinebreak">Footnotes-Footnotes</span></samp><!-- /@w -->!) The footnotes’ node has an
‘Up’ node pointer that leads back to its parent node.
</p>
<p>Here is how the first footnote in this manual looks after being
formatted for Info in the separate node style:
</p>
<div class="example">
<pre class="example">File: texinfo.info Node: Overview-Footnotes, Up: Overview
(1) The first syllable of "Texinfo" is pronounced like "speck", not
"hex". …
</pre></div>
</li></ul>
<p>Unless your document has long and important footnotes (as in, say,
Gibbon’s <cite>Decline and Fall …</cite>), we recommend the ‘<samp>end</samp>’
style, as it is simpler for readers to follow.
</p>
<span id="index-footnotestyle"></span>
<p>Use the <code>@footnotestyle</code> command to specify an Info file’s
footnote style. Write this command at the beginning of a line followed
by an argument, either ‘<samp>end</samp>’ for the end node style or
‘<samp>separate</samp>’ for the separate node style.
</p>
<p>For example,
</p>
<div class="example">
<pre class="example">@footnotestyle end
</pre></div>
<p>or
</p><div class="example">
<pre class="example">@footnotestyle separate
</pre></div>
<p>Write a <code>@footnotestyle</code> command before or shortly after the
end-of-header line at the beginning of a Texinfo file. (You should
include any <code>@footnotestyle</code> command between the start-of-header
and end-of-header lines, so the region formatting commands will format
footnotes as specified.)
</p>
<p>In HTML, when the footnote style is ‘<samp>end</samp>’, or if the output is
not split, footnotes are put at the end of the output. If set to
‘<samp>separate</samp>’, and the output is split, they are placed in a
separate file.
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