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<h4 class="subsection">12.3.2 Footnote Styles</h4>

<p>Info has two footnote styles, which determine where the text of the
footnote is located:

     
<a name="index-g_t_0040samp_007b_0040r_007bEnd_007d_007d-node-footnote-style-613"></a>
<ul><li>In the `End' node style, all the footnotes for a single node
are placed at the end of that node.  The footnotes are separated from
the rest of the node by a line of dashes with the word
&lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">Footnotes</span></samp>&rsquo; within it.  Each footnote begins with an
&lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">(</span><var>n</var><span class="samp">)</span></samp>&rsquo; reference mark.

     <p class="noindent">Here is an example of a single footnote in the end of node style:

     <pre class="example">          --------- Footnotes ---------
          
          (1)  Here is a sample footnote.
</pre>
     <p><a name="index-g_t_0040samp_007b_0040r_007bSeparate_007d_007d-footnote-style-614"></a><li>In the `Separate' node style, all the footnotes for a single
node are placed in an automatically constructed node of
their own.  In this style, a &ldquo;footnote reference&rdquo; follows
each &lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">(</span><var>n</var><span class="samp">)</span></samp>&rsquo; reference mark in the body of the
node.  The footnote reference is actually a cross reference
which you use to reach the footnote node.

     <p>The name of the node with the footnotes is constructed
by appending &lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">-Footnotes</span></samp>&rsquo;<!-- /@w --> to the name of the node
that contains the footnotes. (Consequently, the footnotes'
node for the <samp><span class="file">Footnotes</span></samp> node is
<samp><span class="file">Footnotes-Footnotes</span></samp><!-- /@w -->!)  The footnotes' node has an
`Up' node pointer that leads back to its parent node.

     <p class="noindent">Here is how the first footnote in this manual looks after being
formatted for Info in the separate node style:

     <pre class="smallexample">          File: texinfo.info  Node: Overview-Footnotes, Up: Overview
          
          (1) The first syllable of "Texinfo" is pronounced like "speck", not
          "hex". ...
</pre>
     </ul>

  <p>Unless your document has long and important footnotes (as in, say,
Gibbon's <cite>Decline and Fall <small class="dots">...</small></cite>), we recommend the &lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">end</span></samp>&rsquo;
style, as it is simpler for readers to follow.

  <p><a name="index-footnotestyle-615"></a>Use the <code>@footnotestyle</code> command to specify an Info file's
footnote style.  Write this command at the beginning of a line followed
by an argument, either &lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">end</span></samp>&rsquo; for the end node style or
&lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">separate</span></samp>&rsquo; for the separate node style.

  <p>For example,

<pre class="example">     @footnotestyle end
</pre>
  <p class="noindent">or
<pre class="example">     @footnotestyle separate
</pre>
  <p>Write an <code>@footnotestyle</code> command before or shortly after the
end-of-header line at the beginning of a Texinfo file.  (If you
include the <code>@footnotestyle</code> command between the start-of-header
and end-of-header lines, the region formatting commands will format
footnotes as specified.)

  <p>If you do not specify a footnote style, the formatting commands use
their default style.  Currently, <code>texinfo-format-buffer</code> and
<code>texinfo-format-region</code> use the `separate' style and
<code>makeinfo</code> uses the `end' style.

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