Re: GSoC update; Q's about final/draft modes, and triggering footnotes

[Simon Albrecht]

On 05.07.2016 03:31, Jeffery Shivers wrote:
> Since offset is presumably always going to be used for footnotes, I 
> think *that* should be what triggers the footnote. So, inclusion of 
> `offset = #'(...)` will tell scholarLY that the annotation is a 
> footnote; otherwise it *isn't*. If it's preferred to rather have an 
> explicit boolean (like apply-footnote = ##t, or whatever), that could 
> work. But I will say that I prefer using something as obvious as 
> offset as a sort of automatic indication of footnote-ness.

As long as one _has_ to manually specify the offset, that’s sensible. 
And if Lily ever gets clever enough to place the footnote items on her 
own, it will be easy enough to change this behaviour, I assume.

Best, Simon