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Re: (Newbie) How to turn AutoFill-mode on/off


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: (Newbie) How to turn AutoFill-mode on/off
Date: 24 Nov 2002 17:30:25 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50

kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> ken <ken@cleveland.lug.net> writes:
> 
> > ... and that, according to Heidegger, "every metaphysical thought is
> > ontological or it is nothing at all."<fn>(Holzwege, p. 206)</fn>
> 
> That's a good approach to the problem.  But with LaTeX, it's even
> easier.  You write this;
> 
>     and that, according to Heidegger, ``every metaphysical though is
>     ontological or it is nothing at all.''\footnote{Holzwege, p.\ 206}
> 
> And then LaTeX will create a footnote for you and number it and all
> that stuff.  Note that, for completeness, I've also included the
> strange backslash after the `p.' which tells LaTeX that this dot is
> not a sentence-end period.

In this case one would rather use p.~206 in order to tell LaTeX never
to break the line at that point which would be excessively ugly.

> There are a couple of commands like this that you need to learn, but
> there is a 20 page document that explains about these things and you
> can read that in half an hour or so.

lshort.tex or so.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum


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