Kuba Ober wrote: > Donald Knuth's wife used to say "Don, don't use footnotes". And he doesn't > use them and it seems to work. I presume human science papers are very > different from computer science papers. Thousands footnotes in a PhD > thesis. WOW is all I can say. Okay, okay, let's not start a flamewar here > ;-)
Well ;-) We could start a long thread on this topic. The short answer is: you cannot compare computer or natural sciences with human sciences. The use of footnotes as a "subtext" is essential in (European) human scientific texts, and I'm not (yet) in a position to introduce a new scientific paradigm. Regards, Jürgen > Cheers, Kuba Ober
