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Subject: Re: Adding an explaining title to Notes on SGML
To: Marcos Pegoraro <marcos@f10.com.br>,
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On 23.04.26 15:33, Marcos Pegoraro wrote:
> Em qui., 23 de abr. de 2026 às 09:27, David G. Johnston 
> <david.g.johnston@gmail.com <mailto:david.g.johnston@gmail.com>> escreveu:
> 
>         Use a footnote, but add entries for any/some to the table and
>         use the description to say they are not implemented and to use
>         bool_and/bool_or instead, then anchor the footnote at these entries.
> 
> 
> Honestly, I'd like to remove all footnotes. The watermark identifying 
> them is so small that many people don't even see that it's a link, and 
> the fact that it's at the bottom of the page makes it even more isolated 
> from the text it refers to.
> Another thing I've been thinking about is the "see below". Because it 
> doesn't have a link and in some cases is placed within a large 
> paragraph, that "see below" appears very far away, and the user also 
> doesn't know how to find it.

I agree, new footnotes should be avoided.