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 Footnote Commands
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   In Texinfo, footnotes are created with the `@footnote' command.  This
 command is followed immediately by a left brace, then by the text of
 the footnote, and then by a terminating right brace.  Footnotes may be
 of any length (they will be broken across pages if necessary), but are
 usually short.  The template is:
 
      ordinary text@footnote{TEXT OF FOOTNOTE}
 
   As shown here, the `@footnote' command should come right after the
 text being footnoted, with no intervening space; otherwise, the footnote
 marker might end up starting a line.
 
   For example, this clause is followed by a sample footnote(1) (
 Footnote Commands-Footnote-1); in the Texinfo source, it looks like
 this:
 
      ...a sample footnote@footnote{Here is the sample
      footnote.}; in the Texinfo source...
 
   In a printed manual or book, the reference mark for a footnote is a
 small, superscripted number; the text of the footnote appears at the
 bottom of the page, below a horizontal line.
 
   In Info, the reference mark for a footnote is a pair of parentheses
 with the footnote number between them, like this: `(1)'.  The reference
 mark is followed by a cross-reference link to the footnote's text.
 
   In the HTML output, footnote references are marked with a small,
 superscripted number which is rendered as a hypertext link to the
 footnote text.
 
   By the way, footnotes in the argument of an `@item' command for a
 `@table' must be on the same line as the `@item' (as usual).  
 Two-column Tables.
 

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