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I too only ever use footnotes in tables. I don't recall having used them anywhere else in 25 years of technical documents.
-Brian H.
-----Original Message----- From: Robert Lauriston
I occasionally use table footnotes to avoid having to put too much text in a cell.
Otherwise, no. The information is relevant or it's not, even in conceptual and reference material.
Plus, where do you put footnotes in HTML output? You could make them pop-ups but I think that sort of modal thing is bad design.
On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 8:33 AM, Bruce Megan (ST-CO/MKP3) <Megan -dot- Bruce -at- us -dot- bosch -dot- com> wrote:
> Hello All:
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> What are you thoughts on footnotes in technical documentation? I have been told that footnotes in technical documentation is forbidden because instructions show the reader how to do something, and footnotes distract the reader from instruction.
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