| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org> |
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| To: | Marcos Pegoraro <marcos(at)f10(dot)com(dot)br>, "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Adding an explaining title to Notes on SGML |
| Date: | 2026-04-25 13:35:39 |
| Message-ID: | 45fdd7f7-83d6-4208-8ec1-a65e224b8514@eisentraut.org |
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On 23.04.26 15:33, Marcos Pegoraro wrote:
> Em qui., 23 de abr. de 2026 às 09:27, David G. Johnston
> <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com <mailto:david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>> escreveu:
>
> Use a footnote, but add entries for any/some to the table and
> use the description to say they are not implemented and to use
> bool_and/bool_or instead, then anchor the footnote at these entries.
>
>
> Honestly, I'd like to remove all footnotes. The watermark identifying
> them is so small that many people don't even see that it's a link, and
> the fact that it's at the bottom of the page makes it even more isolated
> from the text it refers to.
> Another thing I've been thinking about is the "see below". Because it
> doesn't have a link and in some cases is placed within a large
> paragraph, that "see below" appears very far away, and the user also
> doesn't know how to find it.
I agree, new footnotes should be avoided.
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