[bksvol-discuss] footnotes at the bottom of the page - again
- From: "Doug Maples" <wdmaples@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:16:35 -0500
At some point it was decided that at the bottom of the page, or the end of
the chapter, or wherever the footnote text is written out to refer back to
the numbers in the body of the text; we were told to place them as follows:
[Begin footnotes:
1 this is the first footnote
2 this is the second footnote
... etc.
end footnotes]
Please do not follow this form! No, it's not because I can't stand it, it's
simply because it does not work after going through the Bookshare tool. I
have done this on a couple books and the final product leaves off the last
line with the:
end footnotes]
After discussing this with Carrie and Alisa and Madeleine, I have been told
I could go back to the old way of simply putting brackets around the section
of footnotes at the bottom of the page. There is no need to tell the people
that you are beginning footnotes and ending footnotes. They simply need to
be separated from the rest of the text and have the numbers in front of the
text for that particular footnote. Very clean and simple! Hey - even if you
just put three asterisks on a single line before the section of footnotes
and left off the brackets, that would separate them from the body of text.
That's all anybody needs when reading the book. They just simply need to
know that the last paragraph or sentence is finished, and something
different is coming up next.
Thank you to the Bookshare staff for clearing this up!
- Doug
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