Monica, You are absolutely right in suggesting that Notes at the bottoms of the pages are a bit difficult to handle with serialized speech. The DAISY format is designed to handle just this kind of fromatted material. In theory--and let me say again "in theory"--DAISY books are capable of marking up structural text such as foot notes, end notes, side bars, sections, headings, graphics, etc. Then, the user would use his/her favorite reading program to parse the various elements as she wishes. So, for example, one user might wish to have properly marked up foot notes read right after they occur in the original text. Another user may choose to have these notes read at the end of the text. Neither DAISY markup tools nor the users' reading programs are suphisticated enough to provide sufficient flexibility at this time. They are coming soon though. Pratik -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Monica Cortada Sent: Monday, May 29, 2006 9:27 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Footnotes and Superscripted Notes I'm back to wrestling with the book with notes at the bottom of the page indicated with asterists and superscript numerals. Although an exact replica of the text may be comprehensible when translated to .brf, things can sound pretty bizzarre in audio. I think Kurzweil ignores the asterist. Even when there is a numeral, there's nothing that says why it's there. Suddenly in the middle of a sentence is a note that pertains to a statement earlier on the page. The Anne Perry book I recently scanned had several asterists referring a statement to another book in the series. Since the note came at the end of the page and not at the point of the asterist, the note was out of context and sounded like garbled text. Is the problem of out of context footnotes an inherent limitation of the linear nature of streaming text to audio? I wonder what the audio book publishers do with footnotes. Maybe they don't go there. Monica in Maryland To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.