On 9/21/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
Information that most people won't be interested in can go in a footnote where the few people that care can find it and those than don't can ignore it. If it were done as a parenthetical aside, people would have to waste their time reading it and determining that it could be ignored.
Except that they have to do that *anyway*, since they don't know whether they're interested in the contents of the footnote until they read it. If most of your readers aren't interested in the material, maybe it belongs in a different article.
But anyway, that's a content issue.