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18 4 The apparatus\footparagraph\foottwocol\footthreecol4.2 Alternate footnote formattingIf you just launch into eledmac using the commands outlined above, you will get astandard layout for your text and notes. You may be happy to accept this at thevery beginning, while you get the hang of things, but the standard layout is notparticularly pretty, and you will certainly want to modify it in due course. Thepackage provides ways of changing the fonts and layout of your text, but these arenot aimed at being totally comprehensive. They are enough to deal with simplevariations from the norm, and to exemplify how you might go on to make moresignifiant changes.By default, all footnotes are formatted as a series of separate paragraphs in onecolumn. Three other formats are also available for notes, and using these macrosyou can select a different format for a series of notes.• \footparagraph formats all the footnotes of a series as a single paragraph;• \foottwocol formats them as separate paragraphs, but in two columns;• \footthreecol, in three columns.Each of these macros takes one argument: a letter (between A and E) for the seriesof notes you want changed. So a text with three layers of notes might begin thus:\footnormal{A}\footthreecol{B}\footparagraph{C}This would make the A-notes ordinary, B-notes would be in three columns, andthe bottom layer of notes would be formed into a paragraph on each page.4.3 Display optionsSince version 1.0, some commands can be used to change the display of the footnotes.All can have an optional argument [〈s〉], which is the letter of the series —or a list of letters separated by comma — depending on which option is applied.When a length, noted 〈l〉, is used, it can be stretchable: a minus b minus c.The final length m is calculated by L A TEX to have: b − a ≤ m ≤ b + c. If you userelative unity 14 , it will be relative to fontsize of the footnote.4.3.1 Control line number printing\numberonlyfirstinline\numberonlyfirstintwolinesBy default, the line number is printed in every note. If you want to print it onlythe first time for a value (i.e one time for line 1, one time for line 2 etc.), you can use\numberonlyfirstinline[〈s〉]. Use \numberonlyfirstinline[〈s〉][〈false〉] tocancel it ( can be empty if you want to disable it for every series).Suppose you have a lemma on line 2 and a lemma between line 2 and line 3.With \numberonlyfirstinline, the second lemma is considered to be on the same14 Like em which is the width of a M.