Re: Footnotes - acceptable in technical documentation?

[Scott Bulloch <scott -dot- bulloch -at- gmail -dot- com>]

At my company, we don't use footnotes in regular instructional text. Our
practice for stuff like that is to indent a note icon (like a light bulb
for tips or a yield sign for cautions) and a paragraph or so of text.

As far as tables go, I have seen table footnotes, but lately, the practice
has been more toward putting such information in a Comments cell in the row.


On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>wrote:

> Looking at the MS Manual of Style 4, there are a few references to
> table footnotes, no mention of regular footnotes.
>
> There's also one reference that seems to presume the writer is using
> Word to edit WinHelp source: "Also, cross-references (See and See
> also) are limited to normal keywords that jump directly to the topic
> that contains the K (keyword) footnote with that keyword."
>
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