[bksvol-discuss] Re: More about footnotes
- From: "Mayrie ReNae" <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 06:03:21 -0700
HI Deborah,
Okay, I could be completely remembering incorrectly, but weren't we
instructed a month or two back to use square brackets around the footnote
numbers, and not to separate them from the preceding word? Does anyone else
remember getting those instructions? Did I dream them? Because I really,
really thought that's what we were instructed to do recently.
Sorry to muddy the waters, but what I think I remember would completely
solve your problem, Deborah.
Scott quoted from the scanning and proofreading manual, so it's somewhere in
the list archives. I am really sorry I have such a crummy memory!
Mayrie
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Hi all,
I apologize in advance for the length (and possible nit-pickiness) of this
question--but here goes!
I scan a lot of nonfiction, most with a lot of footnotes. Like Misha, I
have generally left them alone except for making sure they are all there and
accurate.
Since the scanning and proofreading manual now has instructions for
consistent formatting of footnotes I decided to grit my teeth and format
them as I scan and read my submissions. But I have a concern regarding a
scenario I have frequently encountered in my submissions.
Here is what the manual says:
"c. Put parentheses around each footnote number or footnote letter.
Also, if not already there, add a space between the
footnote number or footnote letter and
the word before it."
And here (if you're still with me <smile>) is a paragraph from a book I
recently scanned:
"This absurdly obvious oxymoron remains in common usage primarily for three
reasons: (1) pushing this particular lie well serves those in power; (2) a
lot of people are too busy, too emotionally drained and defeated, too
fearful, too fully metabolized into the system, too incapable of thinking
for themselves, too financially well-rewarded by the system, too dishonest,
too greedy, too insane, too defensive of and about this culture, and/or too
stupid to see the phrase for what it so obviously is (and of course
different people can have multiple reasons for their inability to perceive
the absurdity of "sustainable development"; George W. Bush, for example,
would fall into at least ten of the above categories; and President Barack
Obama would fall into at least nine); and (3) "sustainable development" is
nothing more nor less than the twenty-first century version of the white
man's burden."
[End of paragraph]
So, given the instructions in the manual, and given the formatting of the
above paragraph, wouldn't the numbers in this text be indistinguishable from
footnotes? And what if (now my head hurts!) the paragraph also had footnotes
in it?
I don't know what to do with this kind of scenario that won't just make hash
of it. Is there possibly a different mark we could use to set off footnotes
instead of parentheses?
Gotta go get more caffeine...
Deborah
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