[bksvol-discuss] Re: More about footnotes
- From: "Tracy Carcione" <carcione@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 09:04:10 -0400
Good point.
I have always favored putting an asterisk before the footnote number, thus:
In his treatise, Jones says whatever.*1
Tracy
> 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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