I read the damned book. The fun part is where the footnote number isn't there.
<grin> That actually has happened. God Bless the proofer who read the book
closely enough to also catch the omission.
----- Original Message -----
From: Judy s.
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, February 19, 2016 3:42 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Looking for best way to make sure all footnote
numbers are in text
I just finished going through 900 pages of a book that is heavily footnoted,
as in it has almost 2000 footnotes. The footnotes are all at the end of the
book in a notes section, so that part was easy-ish to proofreader. However,
making sure that the footnote numbers were actually maintained in the text
itself by the scanning and OCR was a nightmare.
I'm sighted, so I was able to use scanned images from the book to help me
find where missing footnote numbers went. Even so, it took months, working on
it a little bit at a time, to make sure that the text had every single footnote
number and that they were all formatted properly to Bookshare's standards. The
scanner did a terrific job on this huge very complex book, except for the
footnote numbers which were a bear for them to scan, so I didn't want to reject
it.
If anyone has a better or different way to do this, I'd really appreciate if
you could share it. It would be useful to me to know how everyone else, sighted
or blind, tackles this kind of nightmare.
Even in a fairly simple book that has footnotes, what techniques seem to work
to make sure that all of the footnote numbers are in the text?
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Judy s.
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