Post #1765202
2026-04-24 03:28 UTC
As your duly elected god emperor, I vow to make endnotes illegal. Why would I want to keep flipping back and forth to the back of the book? Have you people not heard of footnotes?
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@tpfto@mathstodon.xyz 2026-04-24 12:07
@ids1024 would you tolerate a situation where half a page is just the footnotes?
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@erik@mathstodon.xyz 2026-04-24 19:16
@ids1024 imo because they are so inconvenient, end notes should be used to signal ”Don’t read these unless you absolutely need to!” This includes citations, but also pedantic notes that are necessary for completeness, but irrelevant to most readers