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Timeline for Avoiding foot&note disease

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Apr 29, 2011 at 14:13 history edited iajrz CC BY-SA 3.0
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Apr 29, 2011 at 14:08 comment added Charles Stewart Painful for whom? The writer or the reader? I certainly see that the footnote is easiest for the writer in your example, but wouldn't the discussion of the incursions be impoverished for a reader who had not made the excursion to the footnote about the Templars? It looks like a case where the writer really should make the text linear.
Apr 29, 2011 at 14:02 history answered iajrz CC BY-SA 3.0