GP would just have put the footnote on "Franz" rather than on "the writer" then (and may have had to look up Kafka's first name). I don’t think 6 vs. 12 charact

GP would just have put the footnote on "Franz" rather than on "the writer" then (and may have had to look up Kafka's first name). I don’t think 6 vs. 12 characters makes that much of a difference.