Footnotes and Margin Notes

Footnotes can be added using the Insert Footnote button in the toolbar^3.6 or Insert $\triangleright$Footnote. Click at the end of the word ``LYX'' somewhere in your document and hit the Insert Footnote button. A footnote box appears where you can enter the text of the footnote. LYX should place the cursor at the beginning of the footnote box. Type

LyX is a typesetting word processor.

Now click on the button labelled ``foot.'' The footnote box disappears, leaving the button showing where the footnote marker will be in the printed text; this is called ``folding'' the footnote. You can unfold the footnote at any time -- and re-edit its text, if you want -- by clicking again on the ``foot'' button.

You may wonder why the footnote button is a word instead of a number. The answer is that LYX worries about the footnote numbering for you in the printed text. You can see this yourself by looking at the dvi file (or printout). If you add other footnotes, LYX will renumber the footnotes. Since LYX (well, L^ATEX, actually) takes care of the footnote numbering, there's really no need to put the numbers in the LYX file.

A footnote can be cut and pasted like normal text. Go ahead; try it! All you need to do is select the footnote button^3.7 and Cut and Paste it. In addition, you can change regular text to a footnote, by selecting it and hitting the Insert Footnote button; change a footnote to regular text by clicking the Insert Footnote button when the cursor is in a footnote.

Margin notes can be added using the toolbar button (the button shows an arrow pointing to red text next to (i.e., in the margin of) black text, and should be next to the Insert Footnote button in the toolbar.) or Insert $\triangleright$Marginal Note. Margin notes are like footnotes, except that:

• the on-screen boxes say ``margin'' instead of ``foot''
• the notes will be placed in the margin, instead of below the text
• margin notes are not numbered

Change your LYX footnote back to text, then select and change it to a margin note. Run L^ATEX again to see what the margin note looks like.

Exercise: Fix the footnote in example_raw.lyx