Although Chicago style can appear intimidating, it’s nothing more than a comprehensive guide for writing within the humanities and liberal arts. Footnotes are convenient. Say you’re reading a history ...

// Specify the number of columns with which the footnotes area is formatted.

For now, the W3C specifications only allow the creation of footnotes, as described in the CSS Generated Content for Paged Media Module (css-gcpm-3). But we know that designers and editors like to be ...