Print is an extemely flexible medium and adapts well to the majority of written works. Academic texts containing a large number of footnotes and bibliographical references are one of the few types of printed work which readers may occasionally find cumbersome.
Publishers have the choice of printing references as endnotes or footnotes.
Endnotes leave the detailed reader facing the tiresome necessitiy of continually referring to different pages of a printed text. Meanwhile, footnotes appearing on the same page as the main body of the text may be found intrusive by the general reader, especially if the footnotes are large. An effort has been made in designing this web site to use the potentialities of the medium fully to facilitate visitors' choices of reading the document at different levels. There are three ways of reading this document. Browse through the document using the scroll bar, ignoring any Note .