[bksvol-discuss] Re: a question about formatting footnote references
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 01:51:27 -0700 (PDT)
I'm willing to go back to parentheses, but did you see what was in the Bound by
Books newsletter that Lori included in her post? It wasn't my idea to retain
superscript numbers for footnotes; it was what I remembered reading. If it's a
problem forBraille readers, bookshare should be so notified. smile
Cindy
>Hi, in the "Bound by Books" newsletter dated May 28, 2009, the
>following information appeared regarding footnotes:
>
>Bookshare appreciates the insertion of punctuation (brackets or
>parentheses) around
>footnotes but does not require it. Footnotes may be retained as they
>appear in the
>scanned copy.
>Bookshare advocates the retention of superscripts where possible,
>but in cases where
>your scanner pushes them onto the line above or omits them entirely,
>please drop
>superscripts into the text line..
>
>Lori C.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <mailto:popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>Cindy
>To: <mailto:bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Sent: Saturday, August 22, 2009 4:22 PM
>Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: a question about formatting footnote references
>
>I think they'd now li ike us to use superscript numbers for the
>foonotes, if possible. Delete the pound sign, blacken the number
>and click on superscript; in my Word it's in the format menue,
>under or by clicking on character. (Can someone else give Doug
>better directions?
>
>
>Cindy
>
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>--- On Sat, 8/22/09, Doug Maples <wdmaples@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>From: Doug Maples <wdmaples@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: [bksvol-discuss] a question about formatting footnote references
>To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Date: Saturday, August 22, 2009, 3:19 PM
>
>I am proofing a book called Financial Peace Revisited by Dave
>Ramsey. It is a nonfiction book about personal finances. I have run
>into a place where he quotes a number of sources and denotes them
>with a # followed by a number. This refers to the footnotes at the
>end of the book.
>
>I need some help to know how to format this. Here is an example from the book.
>
>short years.#2 A recent survey conducted by Consolidated Credit
>Counseling Services found that 71 percent of Americans say debts are
>making their home lives unhappy.#3 A recent study in The Wall Street
>Journal states that 70 percent of the American public lives from
>paycheck to paycheck.#4 Interestingly, a Marist Institute poll
>published right after that Wall Street Journal article stated that
>55 percent of Americans "always" or "sometimes" worry about their
>money.#5 If 70 percent are broke and only 55 percent are worried, I
>guess the other 15 percent are asleep..
>
>Thanks for any help!
>
>-- Doug
>
>
>
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