Footnoting (was: possible solutions to the FAQ problem)

[John Walton]

Paul Kippes said:

> The only reason I used that initial MS Word converter is it was the
> ONLY one I found that handled footnotes correctly.  If we could place
> a ban on footnotes, I'm certain we could maintain everything as a MS
> Word document for those of us who have no decent HTML editor.
> FictionAlley uses a decent MS Word converter although it doesn't
> maintain footnote info.

A solution for those who feel that footnotes are a problem is either
endnoting -- i.e.

"Members feel that Hermione is very stupid. See note 12. [link to endnotes
in general]"

or the Harvard System, which involves putting an abbreviated attribution in
parentheses after the sentence --

"Members feel that Hermione is very stupid. (Message 123451)

There's also the possibility of some of our HTML volunteers going through by
hand and making A NAME tags for the footnotes. I've done this in the
Humongous Bigfile and am happy to explain further.

Thoughts?

--John

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