Re: Adds automatic numbering to footnotes. (issue4244064)

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On Mar 22, 2011, at 7:35 PM, Neil Puttock wrote:

> On 10 March 2011 10:06, address@hidden <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On Mar 9, 2011, at 10:17 PM, address@hidden wrote:
> 
>>> Does `annotation-whiteout' do anything special?  If not, the existing
>>> property `whiteout' should suffice.
>>> 
>> 
>> It puts a whiteout only around the annotation instead of whiting out the 
>> entire grob (line + annotation).
> 
> You're only using it for automatic numbering, so it could be
> incorporated into the markup command instead.
> 
> If you still think it's necessary though, you need to rethink the way
> the whiteout's being applied; currently, you're applying
> `stencil-whiteout' to the evaluated markup, then setting 'text to the
> new value.  You can't do this since it's a property type mismatch:
> 'text expects markup, not a stencil.

A workaround would be to create a markup in page-layout-problem.cc, in which 
case my question would be: is there a clean way to create markups on the C++ 
side, or should I create a public scheme function & call it from the C++ side?

Cheers,
MS