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Originally Posted by JSWolf
There are some footnotes that link to other footnotes. It would be best to combine these footnotes (which I did).
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Until just this minute, I always thought Pratchett's nested footnotes were his being funny. But, perhaps those were just his way of getting a lot of footnote material to fit into the space available at the bottom of the page of old printed books.
I've seen him do nested footnotes, footnotes on succeeding sentences, and even pretend footnotes (they follow "true" footnotes and have superscripted characters for reference, but no id= or href= tags of their own). As I was moving them from their own chapters up to the referencing text, I tended to leave them in their existing format. Now that I think about it, I probably should have just combined those "split" footnotes into one lump.