Deficiencies in paragraphed footnotes. (collect via a vbox instead?)
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Description
This issue is a holder for problems in the current algorithm for paragraphed footnotes.
The current algorithm breaks the following things:
\fp- Paragraph breaks (probably incompatible with the algorithm)- Hyphenation (A small test-file shows that discretionary breaks - both implicit and explicit - are not preserved when text is initially boxed into an hbox. They seem to be if the text is first boxed into a vbox, even if they are considered but not used).
Both of these might be solved by the initial load being via a vbox.
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Research direction
Start by reproducing the paragraph-break and hyphenation failures described for the current paragraphed-footnote algorithm, including the referenced small test file. Compare loading the text through an hbox and a vbox, then verify that paragraph breaks and implicit and explicit discretionary breaks are preserved.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- tex
- Domain
- tooling
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100