I was playing with CSS counters the other day and thought about using them to deal with footnotes. According to Plagiarism which has a surprisingly long entry on the matter, footnotes are: […] notes placed at the bottom of a page. They cite references or comment on a designated part of the text above it. You often see them in papers when the author wants to add a piece of information or cite a ref
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