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3.2.6 Footnotes and Endnotes
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Footnotes and endnotes are forms of delayed formatting.  They are
recorded at their points of relevance in the input, but not formatted
there.  Instead, a mark cues the reader to check the "foot", or bottom,
of the current page, or in the case of endnotes, an annotation list
later in the document.  Macro packages that support these features also
supply a means of automatically numbering either type of annotation.