Question: How do most editors work around the reference problems of clear-text editing?
Answer: As Shillingsburg notes, "English scholarly editions have tended to use notes at the foot of the text page, indicating, tacitly, a greater modesty about the "established" text and drawing attention more forcibly to at least some of the alternative forms of the text".
A single-select problem: Is the question answered in a satisfactory fashion?

OPTIONS:
[a]. yes
[b]. no
[a].