footnote syntax

Richard Taytor dick at gutz.com
Fri Feb 8 02:26:39 EST 2008


I searched the list but didn't find an answer to this question.

Why is the caret[^c] preferred over the asterisk[*a] for footnote markers?

[^c]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caret
[*a]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterisk


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