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First published on Wednesday, Aug 27, 2025 and last modified on Thursday, Sep 11, 2025 by François Chaplais.
Footnotes are created using the following syntax.
\footnote{text content}In print and PDF, footnotes are placed at the bottom of the page (hence the name) to avoid intruding in the flow of the text. The problem here is that there is no such such thing as a page in the web.
The “not intruding” behavior of footnotes is handled as follows in LaTeX2Web. Footnotes are indicated by a blue bubble icon. When you click on it, the text of the footnote is inserted in the flow of the text. Click on the footnote, and it disappears. Here is a footnote .
Because it is inserted in the flow of the text, a footnote can only include running text.
Quotations enclosed in a quote environment. Since a quotation is just ordinary content put out of context, it can include quite a few things, notably LaTeX2Web terminal objects. Here is a lorem quote.
I remember this quite clearly.
- Lorem ipsum eu, aliqua, veniam elit et sunt ut qui, culpa veniam magna in nostrud aliqua amet ullamco laborum. Enim deserunt laboris et in in dolor, ut minim, laborum, ea amet, culpa consectetur labore, quis commodo sunt. Proident velit dolor dolor esse ut officia laboris excepteur consectetur, duis cupidatat consequat ut officia excepteur sed ullamco.
- Lorem ipsum in anim cillum labore cillum duis incididunt, dolor consequat, aute dolore fugiat ut dolor incididunt ut nisi deserunt. Dolore esse tempor labore ex consectetur dolore ut sed ea adipiscing cillum aliqua et commodo in veniam do esse. Qui eu aute est, qui voluptate labore deserunt sed sed, in voluptate dolor aute, laborum mollit anim exercitation in.
The syntax is simply
\begin{quote}
... content ...
\end{quote}LaTeX lets you insert code inside your documents. Code can be in running text, or as a distinct code block.
To insert code insinde running text, you must use the \verb command. It is used as follows.
\verb command is insertedFor instance the \verb chunk of code that has been used above is encoded in LaTeX as \verb§\verb§.
Code blocks are enclosed in a verbatim environment. Code blocks in LaTeX2Web use syntax highlighting as provided by highlight.js. To specify the language to be used for syntax highlighting, use an optional parameter for the \begin{verbatim} declatation. To highlight LaTeX code, you would declare \begin{verbatim}[LATEX. The language name is case insensiive. Here is how we created the previous code block that what used to explain how to create quote environment.
\begin{verbatim}[LATEX]
\begin{quote}
... content ...
\end{quote}
\end{verbatim}Clicking on the top right button in a code block copies the code to the clipboard.
In LaTeX, you can create margin notes using the \marginpar command. The syntax is below.
... running text ...
\marginpar{text of the margin note}
... running textIn practice, the concept of “margin” is ambigous in web content, notably on mobile devices, where space is scarce. The solution used by LaTeX2Web consists in placing the margin note inside the running text, while being visually separated. Here is an example.
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, “and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice “without pictures or conversations?”
So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her.
There was nothing so very remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so very much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself, “Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!” (when she thought it over afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural); but when the Rabbit actually took a watch out of its waistcoat-pocket, and looked at it, and then hurried on, Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge.
In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again.
Note: to produce a horizontal rule, use the command \rule.
Summary 1
Footnotes are created using the \footnote command. Quotations are declared by using the quote environment.
Inline code is created by using the \verb command, and code blocks are created inside a verbatim environment.
To set aside some content in running text, use the \marginpar command.