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You've never been reading, reached the end of a page, and sai to yourself, "Oh hey footnotes, I wonder what they are attached to?"? Superscripts are easier to
by sophacles 16y ago
You've never been reading, reached the end of a page, and sai to yourself, "Oh hey footnotes, I wonder what they are attached to?"? Superscripts are easier to ignore because they don't modify the word or phrase's presentation, while links necessarily modify the whole thing.
- philwelch 16y agoPersonally, whenever I find a superscript I compulsively go to the footnote and back. I think of footnotes as asides which would be too long to put in parentheses. (I do ignore footnotes that just go to citations.)