Re: [PATCH -perfbook 2/2] Fix punctuation around footnotes

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On Thu, 1 Sep 2022 22:47:22 +0900, Akira Yokosawa wrote:
> Perfbook's convention is to put footnotes after punctuation marks.
> There are a couple of footnotes placed in front of commas.
> 
> Fix them.
> 
> While here, fill in a missing comma in front of a footnote in datastruct
> so that the phrase "even with today's large-memory systems" reads as such.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> I'm thinking of adding rules to catch this sort of inconsistencies in
> punctcheck.pl.
> The one in datastuct would be hard for such a dumb script, though.
> 
>         Thanks, Akira
> --
>  datastruct/datastruct.tex     | 2 +-
>  intro/intro.tex               | 4 ++--
>  toolsoftrade/toolsoftrade.tex | 4 ++--
>  3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/datastruct/datastruct.tex b/datastruct/datastruct.tex
> index 714795f7c5ed..2b802e0518a5 100644
> --- a/datastruct/datastruct.tex
> +++ b/datastruct/datastruct.tex
> @@ -2132,7 +2132,7 @@ the one hand, and performance and simplicity on the other.
>  Fortunately, the relatively large memories available on modern
>  systems have allowed us to prioritize performance and simplicity
>  over memory overhead.
> -However, even with today's large-memory systems\footnote{
> +However, even with today's large-memory systems,\footnote{
>  	Smartphones with gigabytes of memory, anyone?}
Paul, you might want to update the text of this footnote.
Today's smartphones actually have gigabytes of memory...

        Thanks, Akira

>  it is sometimes necessary to take extreme measures to reduce
>  memory overhead.
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