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,
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
follow a different
approach your book will not be rejected on account of it.
Below is the draft we
put together for footnotes, sidebars and superscripts.
We’ll be sending out a more
complete version with
other aspects next week.
Please send in any feedback or
refinements that you would
like us to consider!
Warm regards,
Pavi
Standardized Guidelines for
Footnotes, Superscript and
Sidebars:
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. This can be
done through a global drop. For more instructions (will
include a link to
detailed global drop directions)
If a sidebar only repeats what is
already in the text on
that page it can be deleted entirely. If it doesn’t
and contains
different content then please use your discretion in
placing it in between two
paragraphs of the same page where you think it least
disrupts the flow.
From:
bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Kathy Hester
Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 11:11 AM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Footnotes and
Sidebars
I
enjoy reading nonfiction,
and I proofread a good bit of it. However, I have
sent several back to
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
way to handle these
things?
Thank
you.
Kathy
>
"The LORD bless you
and keep you;
> the LORD make His face shine upon you
> and be gracious to you;
> the LORD turn His face toward you
> and give you peace."
> Numbers 6:24-26
