Re: [All] Policy on Footnotes

At 03:42 PM 5/25/2005 -0700, Uschold, Michael F wrote:
>This is a matter of personal style preference and there is a tradeoff. 

yep, and I'm generally willing to accept the preference of
whomever steps forward to be the editor(s) of any given document.

>For readers that DO like to read notes, it is disruptive to have to flip
>several pages forward to find the notes and then back to the text (I'm
>in this group).

And it's frustrating that HTML printing support doesn't make it
easy to have footnotes on the page where they are referenced.
(As an inveterate reader of notes myself, I find that my mental
flow is interrupted much less if I can glance at the bottom of
the page and back rather than flipping to endnotes.)

>2. Does the W3C ... have a position on this?

Nothing on this topic is documented in W3C Manual of Style [1].

   [1] http://www.w3.org/2001/06/manual/

>3. If not, should we?

I think we have more important debates with which to occupy our time ;)