I have a document that uses a lot of footnotes (avg. 15 per page, and 1 line of text per footnote in A5 paper). Unfortunately, this necessitates a lot of eye movement: readers must find the corresponding footnote, then find their place back in the text again. Frequently, readers must refer back to prior footnotes. I need to find something more efficient, that also doesn't take up much space.
I have tried every option in footmisc, but these only make insignificant formatting changes. I've tried using the margin features of tufte-latex and footmisc, but this runs into errors complaining about too many floats and not enough memory; the workarounds for this are insufficient given the large quantity of footnotes I'm dealing with.
What other options or adjustments can I try?
Best Answer
You can use end notes. Which basically are footnotes collected at the end of the chapter. It depends on how the footnotes are used.
Does the reader need to look up the information instantly? Then endnotes are not a good alternative. As you already suggested, margin notes can be used, instead.