Context: Some critics believe that a clear-text edition gives the edited text too great a prominence, relegating textual variants to appendices that are difficult to use, and suggesting a greater sense of certainty about the established text than it deserves. As Shillingsburg notes, "English scholarly editions have tended to use notes at the foot of the text page, indicating, tacitly, a greater modesty about the "established" text and drawing attention more forcibly to at least some of the alternative forms of the text".

Question: Are appendices easy to use for the average reader?
Answer: appendices that are difficult to use,

Question: Can a reader be certain of the validity of information found in a clear-text edition?
Answer: suggesting a greater sense of certainty about the established text than it deserves

Question: How do most editors work around the reference problems of clear-text editing?
Answer: notes at the foot of the text page

Question: Where can a reader find more information on text variants after noticing a footnote?
Answer: appendices

Question: Who believes that clear-text doesn't give enough prominence? 
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What are generally easy to use?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: Shillingsburg says which editions don't use notes at the bottom of the page?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What does not draw attention to alternative forms of text?
Answer: Unanswerable