From bc63a84d447ff6f771a0e61d061e38623f6c0f81 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ben Pfaff Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2020 17:43:04 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] spv-file-format: Footnotes can't refer to footnotes. --- doc/dev/spv-file-format.texi | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/dev/spv-file-format.texi b/doc/dev/spv-file-format.texi index 0e3eb19e88..49662dd7ac 100644 --- a/doc/dev/spv-file-format.texi +++ b/doc/dev/spv-file-format.texi @@ -1067,6 +1067,9 @@ Footnote => Value[text] (58 @math{|} 31 Value[marker]) int32[show] Each footnote has @code{text} and an optional custom @code{marker} (such as @samp{*}). +The syntax for Value would allow footnotes (and their markers) to +reference other footnotes, but in practice this doesn't work. + @code{show} is a 32-bit signed integer. It is positive to show the footnote or negative to hide it. Its magnitude is often 1, and in other cases tends to be the number of references to the footnote. -- 2.30.2