[bksvol-discuss] Re: end-of-page oddity
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 03:22:21 -0700 (PDT)
Itdoes sound as if in this book the author uses an asterisk or a dagger as a
footnote symbol; the note at the bottom of the page is probably anexplanatory
footnote, i.e., a definition of a word or explanation of something, rather than
a bibliographic citation. I've books with these
I see somebody has already offered to help you (was it Misha?
If 0465072097 is the ISBN number I can get the book and tell uou what the
symbols and teh footnotes are; however, the book seems to be popular--there's
only one available at the moment, so it might take a while.
Cindy
--- On Sun, 5/15/11, Mike <mlsestak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Mike <mlsestak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: end-of-page oddity
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Sunday, May 15, 2011, 1:35 AM
> I've done many nonfiction books with
> footnotes. Basically, OCR often doesn't recognize footnote
> symbols well. The symbols are often superscripts. This means
> they are smaller and raised slightly above the normal line
> of text. This makes it harder for the OCR to figure out what
> they are.
>
> I am sighted and would be willing to help. What is the
> book? How many footnotes are there? If they are only a few
> per chapter, and I can find the book, we could probably work
> together on it by email. If there are many of them, it might
> be easier to check if Carrie Karnos will let us do it in two
> stages. You proofread and correct everything but the
> footnotes, then I proofread the footnote character and
> footnotes. This second part is done by you checking in the
> book and putting in the comments for Carrie to return the
> checkout queue with "hold for Misha" on it. I checkout and
> finish proofing the book.
>
> Misha
>
> On 5/14/2011 7:25 PM, Ellen Bartlett wrote:
> >
> > Hi group,
> >
> > I have a problem and am not sure how to solve it. The
> book I’m currently working on, Boys Adrift by Leonard Sax,
> has a number of pages with notes at the end of the page. In
> the text of the page, and before the notes themselves, there
> seem to be symbols showing that a footnote appears. I’ve
> checked books.google.com to find out what symbol this might
> be, but there appears to be no consistency from one instance
> to another. It seems to be either an asterisk, a single
> dagger, a single quote, a caret, or, most often, nothing at
> all. There are a number of pages where no symbol appears in
> the text to show what the note at the foot of the page
> refers to.
> >
> > So, my question is: what the heck do I do to remedy
> this?Since even Google books is so inconsistent, I’m
> thinking the only way to fix it is by having someone sighted
> get it from the library and go through it with me.
> >
> > Any other ideas or help?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Ellen
> >
>
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