It would be great if there were an option in the footnotes module to add a footer before the footnotes, and possibly after (although I can't see an immediate use for that) but only if there are any footnotes in the message. This would allow the optional display of something like "Footnotes:" so that people who are not used to seeing footnotes on websites won't be confused by them.

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hingo commented

Interesting idea.

I personally do not see the need for it, but just the fact that you came up with this idea proves that someone else does.

I think the right place for this kind of feature would be in a theme template, not as a feature of the module itself. Do I remember correctly that t() translations work within themes as well?

(This is silly, but just to prove my point, even now you could do this just with css, if you make an image with the text "Footnotes:" and position that with css above the footnotes. Something like div.footnotes {background: #ffffff footnotes.png no-repeat scroll -20px -20 px;})

In the meantime, you are aware that you can visually separate the footnotes already in your theme, with a margin and borderline?

div.footnotes {
  margin-top: 4em;
  border-top: 1px solid #000000;
}
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hingo commented

Also, I usually make the footnotes appear in a smaller font:

div.footnotes {
  font-size: 0.8em;
}
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hyperlogos commented

Yeah, good point. I'm still learning about theming... On one hand I do see the value of having everything done through themes/CSS, but on the other hand, I see the value of being able to configure it all through a GUI as well :)

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hingo commented

Ok. I will close this issue, as CSS is "the right way" to solve your problem. Sorry.

But you raised a good point: I should probably include a default stylesheet in the Footnotes module or at least add some sample css into the README file. I'm sure there are others who will run up against this same issue just like you.

Actually, I'll leave this open until I remember to do that. Thanks for pointing this out to me.

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binford2k commented

for this to work, the module has to import css.

/**
 * Implementation of hook_menu()
 */
function footnotes_menu($may_cache) {
  if (!$may_cache) {
    theme('add_style', drupal_get_path('module', 'footnotes') . '/footnotes.css'
);
  }
}
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hingo commented

First of all, sorry for being gone so long. I really appreciated this and other users comments, but I was overwhelmed at my work for the past 4 weeks.

So...

I've now added a footnotes.css file with the CSS needed to make HTML Footnotes look good. I will commit later today.

As for the original question: This issue is a better way of possibly adding text before or even after the list of footnotes. I'll take a stab at implementing that later.

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hingo commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)