Re: Footnotes - acceptable in technical documentation?

Subject: Re: Footnotes - acceptable in technical documentation?
From: Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>
To: TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2013 08:38:36 -0800

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:
>
> 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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