[whatwg] Footnotes, endnotes, sidenotes
Matthew Paul Thomas
mpt at myrealbox.com
Sat Nov 4 05:21:42 PST 2006
On Oct 31, 2006, at 7:20 AM, David Walbert wrote:
> ...
> Footnotes and endnotes are identical in content in the context of a
> print document and I am not certain how they'd differ even
> presentationally on a web page, so yes, I think those can be
> considered identical in terms of markup.
> ...
Scholarly books sometimes use both footnotes and endnotes for different
things -- footnotes for citations and endnotes for tangential
discussions, or vice versa. I've never seen an HTML document try to
make this distinction, though.
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Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/
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