[OS X TeX] extra footnote set for graphics

[Claus Gerhardt]

You should try the package fnpara, other packages might also be  
helpful, see the fnpara documentation. The typographical examples  
could alternatively be displayed in the margins using the command  
\marginpar.

Claus


On Jun 15, 2005, at 19:49, Florian Grammel wrote:

> We want to typeset a longish paper on palaeography.
> As we'll need a lot of special characters, that we all have in one  
> Unicodefont, we decided to try doing so using XeLaTeX. There are  
> also a lot of tiny clips (most about 5 x 5 mm) from manuscripts- 
> scans that the text refers to. It would be a waste of space to  
> insert them properly as pictures usually would be, collecting them  
> at the end of the paper would be impractical (there would be up to  
> 30 references on one page) and just inserting them into the text  
> would ruin the line-spacing.
>
> In the book "The Palaeography of Gothic Manuscript Books. From the  
> Twelfth to the Early Sixteenth Century" by Albert Derolez Cambridge  
> University Press has solved the problem very elegantly by using two  
> sets of footnotes: one for the ordinary ones and one for the  
> examples at the bottom of the page, depending on how many there are  
> of each, neatly arranged in relation to each other. I've uploaded a  
> scan if anybody wants to have a look: http://img248.echo.cx/ 
> img248/8566/palaeoexampel4oz.jpg
>
> The book states that it was typeset using LaTeX2e -- so it should  
> be possible...
> Does anybody know, how they might have achieved this layout?
> Thanks in advance for your help!
>
>
> Florian Grammel
> Alex S. Kjeldsen
>
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