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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Nobody can convince me that's a good format.

The "battles [1][7][8][9][31][42][44][45][47][64][65][67][68][83][99]" format is superior and I'll die on that hill!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

In other words, IEEE > Harvard

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yeah the posted example is awful to read.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm working my way through House of Leaves right now, and the real horror is the grad school flashbacks from trying to follow the footnotes.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Jonathan Strange and Mister Norrell by Susanna Clarke is pretty fantastic/terrible about that. The footnotes are often entire short stories and span many pages.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I think the footnotes enhanced my love of that book.

And I alway think kindly of Pterry's nested footnotes.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Could they not do the lil numbers with the footnotes instead?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (2 children)

That is a footnote

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Holy fucking shit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

They're usually end notes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

And still footnotes >>>>>>> [...] >>> endnotes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's even worse when you're quoting some motherfucker that took PRIDE in plagiarism. Did Thomas More source his claims? No. He just made them and dared your peasant ass to say something about it, meanwhile Machiavelli is out there just copy pasting Livy and planning to poison anyone that brings it up.