"Neil Kandalgaonkar" neilk@wikimedia.org wrote in message news:4C62E7E2.3040904@wikimedia.org...

For obvious reasons only consecutive pages should be allowed here.

Not true. Sometimes a footnote will start on one page, and the next page will have a full-page illustration, and then the footnote will continue on the subsequent pages. In books where there all the photgraphic plates are next to each other (which is very common, due to the printing/binding process) the gap could be of an arbitrary length.

- Mark Clements (HappyDog)