The S.E.C., the Federal agency that oversees corporate financial safety, said it would give companies three options for giving detailed footnotes about these potentially risky investments.

But many of the same people who complain about detailed rules also complain about detailed footnotes that they say confuse investors.

Royer went beyond her role as a translator and included a long (60 page) preface and detailed explanatory footnotes.

A letter that reads in its entirety "Enclosed are the two contracts duly signed" takes up a full page, including a detailed explanatory footnote.

The 89-page volume, complete with detailed footnotes and appendices, seemed headed for the oblivion that describes the fate of most Government reports.

In the interests of readability and keeping down the book's costs I decided to omit detailed footnotes.

The manuscript, like the Unabomber's manifesto, includes detailed footnotes.

This is an ambitious, provocative and impressively documented work, with more than 70 pages of detailed footnotes for a 178-page text.

II is highly technical, which necessitated writing detailed footnotes by Prof. Shahâb Sarmadî resulting from our discussions.

In a heroically detailed footnote, Barmé explains: