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Originally Posted by Deskisamess
I don't want notes in parenthesis inline with the text. That means they can't be ignored if I don't want/need to read them.
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Horrors, people ignoring footnotes! What's the world coming to?
I've read books where I've realized that the footnotes aren't helping and are just some sort of incidental noise and have skipped them. Those could be end notes that don't have a footnote number; the Andrea Camilleri mystery series with inspector Salvo Montalbano does that; the translator has end notes at the end of the book explaining stuff.
Now I'm reformatting a book where characters are occasionally using French or German and there are footnotes of the translation. That's a case where I can't see why you wouldn't put them in parenthesis. Unless you know German and French you're going to want to read them and who needs to tap or look elsewhere for the translation?