From: r coyne (duckingsnofair_at_yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Nov 25 2003 - 17:55:08 EST
msevior, replying to itself_at_..., wrote:
>> 4608, "very large footnotes behave very badly"
(they cause crashes
and
>> file corruption)
>>
>This is a problem if the footnote gets bigger than
the >size of a page.
>I
>would be extremely surprised if anyone intentionaly
wrote >a document
>this
>way. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Legal encyclopedias (CJS, AmJur) have numerous pages
consisting primarily of footnotes (string cites for
the "black letter" statement in the text), with only a
line or two of maintext at the top, if that. And
footnotes are routinely run over from page to page.
Usually there are several notes on the page, so none
is individually bigger than a page, but I would not be
surprised to find the occasional one that is longer
than a page -- though I couldn't cite you to an
example offhand, not having the books in front of me.
And plenty of law students do (usually ill-advisedly)
write in this style.
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