[bksvol-discuss] Re: Footnotes and Sidebars
- From: popularplace@xxxxxxxxx
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:56:33 -0700 (PDT)
Wow! This is different. As a proofreader I'm happy to put footnote numbers as
superscripts, though it takes time, or to leave them that way if they come to
me that way. I don't know how blind readers will feel about the parentheses or
brackets around footnote numbers but as a sighted person I hated to see the
number by itself right at the end of the sentence. or, especially after a
series of words. It was hard to know if it was a footnote number of a number
that was meant to be part of the text.
As to where to insert sidebar info when it's necessary, I wouldn't restrict it
to between paragraphs on the specific page where it appears in the book. Not
stoppping flow to me is paramount. There have been times when I've placed the
info at the end of the page, before the page break or even at the top of the
next page, i.e., the very beginning of the text on the next page. I wish I
could think of examples, but any Shelley's animal encyclopedia volumes, or
possibly Johnny's In the Well.
Cindy
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--- On Thu, 4/23/09, Pavi Mehta <pavim@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Pavi Mehta <pavim@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Footnotes and Sidebars
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Thursday, April 23, 2009, 11:31 AM
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> Dear Kathy,
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> Carrie and I have been working to
> draft guidelines for
> these sorts of things that are currently not included in
> the volunteer manual.
> In several cases these are optional guidelines for the
> benefit of those
> volunteers who want to comply with all of Bookshare's
> standardized approaches.
> They are not requirements, which is to say that if you
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> approach your book will not be rejected on account of it.
> Below is the draft we
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> Standardized Guidelines for
> Footnotes, Superscript and
> Sidebars:
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> 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.
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> 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. This can be
> done through a global drop. For more instructions (will
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> If a sidebar only repeats what is
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> that page it can be deleted entirely. If it doesn’t
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> From:
> bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Kathy Hester
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> Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 11:11 AM
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> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Footnotes and
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> I
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> and I proofread a good bit of it. However, I have
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> the checkout page because I don't know the best way of
> handling footnotes and
> sidebars, especially when they come in the middle of
> sentences, and when there
> are two or more on the page! Could somebody who has
> done it and is
> comfortable with it please send a description of the best
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> "The LORD bless you
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> > the LORD turn His face toward you
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> > Numbers 6:24-26
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