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Jo Wolff
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Jonathan Wolff, Political Philosopher. Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford Wolfson College President Royal Institute of Philosophy THFC supporter in 'back to reality' mode #academic
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Microsoft Word developers. ‘No-one wants to write comments on footnotes.’ PhD Supervisors. ‘?????’ Microsoft Word developers. ‘No-one WHO MATTERS wants to write comments on footnotes.’

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This is why all PhD candidates should be forced to write their theses in LaTeX. Besides, it's fun!

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Ouch!

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CV1stviscountess.bsky.social

Footnotes should be for citations only and there’s no reason you would need to comment on those if the person is in any way competent.

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RDrulesdontwork.bsky.social

Thanks This frustrates me SO MUCH

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DDddiamantaras.bsky.social

It’s never too late to switch to LaTeX, open source and free, with many good editor applications available, a nice one with nice collaborative comments being overleaf dot com.

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Ccviibyz.bsky.social

Literally had this problem this week

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Mmokrates.bsky.social

Microsoft software is just bad.

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DMffinlo.bsky.social

LibreOffice for PhD Supervisors

Screenshot from LibreOffice 7.6.5.2 (Ubuntu 23.10) showing a footnote ("1. This is a footnote") and a marginal comment ("This is a comment on a footnote").
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CRrandlesc.bsky.social

Editors don't matter either.

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EDcorpkiller.bsky.social

This is an annoyance for appellate litigators as well. Lots of footnotes in those briefs!

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Jo Wolff
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Jonathan Wolff, Political Philosopher. Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford Wolfson College President Royal Institute of Philosophy THFC supporter in 'back to reality' mode #academic
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