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(groff)Footnotes and Annotations

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Footnotes and Annotations
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   There are a number of requests to save text for later printing.

   "Footnotes" are printed at the bottom of the current page.

   "Delayed text" is very similar to a footnote except that it is
printed when called for explicitly.  This allows a list of references to
appear (for example) at the end of each chapter, as is the convention in
some disciplines.

   Most macro packages which supply this functionality also supply a
means of automatically numbering either type of annotation.