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In article <Dec.9.23.45.49.1989.8147@paul.rutgers.edu> gaynor@topaz.rutgers.edu writes:
>Under which circumstances is one more appropriate than the other?
>I usually decide this by feel, most often in favor of footnotes.
>Would you textperts illumine me on the ways of extratextual notes?

The uses I have seen of this have been in annotated editions of base
texts where the annotations exceed in bulk the original text.  Reading
the annotations beside the text as a pair of two-up columns is _much_
more pleasant than reading them as footnotes, in part because the eyes
do better moving side to side than up and down when reading, in part
because the annotations are partially self indexed when they lay
alongside the line(s) being annotated, saving wear and tear on the
user's number/symbol matching capacity.  An excellent example of
annotations done parallel to the text rather than as footnotes is
Martin Gardner's _The Annotated Alice_.


Again, my opinion, not the account furnishers'.

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