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From: clarke@hpdtl.HP.COM (Marc Clarke)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Marginal Notes vs. Footnotes
Message-ID: <8400008@hpdtl.HP.COM>
Date: 2 Feb 90 21:27:31 GMT
References: <Dec.9.23.45.49.1989.8147@paul.rutgers.edu>
Organization: HP Design Tech. Lab., Palo Alto, CA
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Text in marginal notes is commonly used to provide examples, or to allow the
reader to skim down the margins looking for the topic of interest without
having to resort to the table of contents.  Footnotes contain supplemental
information to the main line text.