Glossary items as footnotes - Just once.
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Description
We have some quite long glossary items for fairly common terms. Paratext has helpfully marked all occurrences of key terms with \w...\w*. Including the whole glossary item as a footnote on every occurrence doesn't work very well (I see a page with John 18-19 on it with something like 6 footnotes for Pilate, 4 for kingdom....).
It might, however, be useful to include one footnote for each term in the publication.
Of course there's the related issue of de-duplicating footnotes on the same page, but that's not going to be very easy.
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Research direction
Start by tracing how Paratext glossary markers such as \w...\w* become footnotes in the XeTeX-based typesetting flow. The change is done when each glossary term contributes one footnote for the publication, while the issue's separate same-page de-duplication concern remains distinct.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python, tex
- Domain
- tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100