Hi Evan,
In the new iteration of the scanning and proofreading manual, which I'm
still working on, we will be adopting Deborah's means of noting footnotes.
Mayrie
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: More fun with footnotes! (LONG)
Well, I guess I'm gonna have to open this can of worms again, but I thought
the numbered ones were supposed to have parentheses around them. I see the
stars for the notes at the bottom of the page, but you've got a star in
front of the numbered notes which are not at the bottom of the page. I
thought those were supposed to be enclosed in parentheses.
Evan
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From: "Tracy Carcione" <carcione@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 10:27 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: More fun with footnotes! (LONG)
> Deborah, your solution seems best to me. I can't think of a braille
> character that would be better than a star.
> Tracy
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> This message is going to be rather long and I apologize in advance.
>> I'm looking for input, particularly from braille readers, for a footnote
>> formatting scenario that I'm currently puzzling over. It's not the first
>> time I've encountered this as I think it's rather uncommon, but it does
>> happen.
>>
>> I've been using a space followed by an asterisk(*) to set off footnotes
>> within text and that seems to work well, whether the associated note
>> appears
>> at the end of the page, chapter or book.
>> Sometimes when the numbered notes appear at the end of the chapter or
>> book,
>> in addition to the numbered footnotes, an author inserts an asterisk (*)
>> to
>> indicate a note at the bottom of the page.
>> To make this even more interesting, there are sometimes multiple
>> instances
>> of these notes. Instead of multiple asterisks, a character, usually
>> called
>> a
>> dagger, is used for the second one, and a double dagger for the third,
>> etc.
>> These characters usually scan as either a lower case "t" or "f."
>> What I've done in the past is use a double asterisk (**) for the dagger,
>> and
>> triple asterisk (***) for the double dagger.
>> Whew! If you've gotten this far, thank you.
>>
>> Now my current situation: I have a page with all of the above. I am
>> including the page below as I have it formatted. It seems a bit busy, but
>> I
>> don't know what else to do.
>> So-- braille readers especially-- is there a character that can be
>> represented in braille to replace the dagger and double dagger? The
>> place
>> in this page that gets really clunky is at footnote number 8. There is a
>> dagger for the second note at the bottom of the page, followed by
>> numbered
>> note 8.
>>
>> Page from the book:
>>
>> The Lowell Offering achieved international fame. Charles Dickens in his
>> American Notes referred to it as the "first clear notes of real life in
>> America." An American returning from England reported: "The Lowell
>> Offering
>> is probably exciting more attention in England, than any other American
>> publication. It is talked of in the political as well as literary world."
>> And in France, Thiers * arose in the Chamber of Deputies, waved a copy of
>> the Lowell Offering in the air, and solemnly proclaimed that the magazine
>> proved that in a democracy, labor could possess a mind and soul as well
>> as
>> a
>> body. *7
>> It is hardly surprising that the Lowell Offering was welcomed by factory
>> owners, and that they sent a written tribute to the editors, praising
>> "the
>> worthy enterprise in which they are engaged." ** *8 For the editors of
>> the
>> Lowell Offering were not in the least concerned with wages and hours. "We
>> could do nothing to regulate the price of wages of the world," wrote one
>> of
>> the editors. "We would not if we could, at least we would not make that a
>> prominent subject in our pages, for we believe there are things of even
>> greater importance." As for hours and working conditions-these were
>> matters
>> over which workers "have no control." They would come as a result of the
>> kind-heartedness of the factory owners. The corporations would "in their
>> own
>> good time introduce the ten-hour system, and will not this be a noble
>> deed?"
>> *9
>> What, then, were the "things of even greater importance"? The only thing
>> that really mattered, said the magazine's editor, was to "elevate,
>> instruct
>> and purify the mind and soul of the workers; to give them an outlet for
>> the
>> spiritual and emotional needs of the soul; to provide them with sweetness
>> and light." Let the factory girls, therefore, meet in improvement circles
>> where they would read and study. Armed with learning and culture, they
>> could
>> protect themselves from the crushing power of the machine which
>> dehumanized
>> the worker and robbed him of dignity and self-assurance. At the same
>> time,
>> they would prove to the world that there was "Mind among the Spindles."
>> As
>> long as the mind and the soul were free, what did it matter what happened
>> to
>> the body? The philosophy of the factory girls should be that of the
>> Apostles: "Having food and raiment, let us be therewith content." *10
>> The Lowell Offering was popular everywhere but among the factory girls.
>> True, they wrote poems and stories for the magazine, believing
>>
>> * * *
>>
>> * In 1871, Thiers played a conspicuous role in the brutal suppression of
>> the
>> Paris Commune and in the wholesale slaughter of the Paris proletariat
>> during
>> the "Bloody Week" when reaction triumphed.
>> ** in January, 1843, the Offering was purchased by William Schouler from
>> its
>> former proprietors. Schouler was an agent of the mill owners, a bitter
>> foe
>> of the ten-hour day, and was intensely hated by almost all factory girls.
>> In
>> a signed statement, Schouler called upon all "who feel an interest in the
>> progress and good name of the factory system" to support the Offering.
>> End of page.
>>
>> Thanks for any and all help!
>> Deborah
>>
>>
>>
>>
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