[bksvol-discuss] Re: Question about formatting footnotes
- From: Cindy Rosenthal <grandcyn77@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 21:49:03 -0700
That's very true; I suppose Kathy will have to see if there is only
one footnote, indicated by an asterisk, at the bottom of the page, or
if there are more.
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 3:05 AM, Deborah Murray <blinkeeblink@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Cindy and Kathy,
>
> Actually Cindy, there are many instances where all you have is an asterisk
> indicating a note at the bottom of the page. Footnotes aren't always
> numbered--it depends on the author and publisher.
>
> Kathy, don't put brackets or parentheses around the asterisks. I usually
> leave a space between the word the asterisk refers to or the ending
> punctuation and the asterisk.
> I remember quite a long time ago that someone said they should be spaced
> apart from the word in question in order that the braille translator
> interprets them correctly. That could be incorrect and I'm not an
> accomplished enough braille reader to say definitively.
> I'd appreciate input on this particular question from those who do read
> braille competently.
> As to the manual, it has been in process for some time and I don't think the
> current version on the website is up-to-date as far as footnotes.
>
> Hope that answers your question.
>
> Deborah
>
>
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> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Question about formatting footnotes
>
> You've got a problem; there should be footnote numbers next to the
> asterisks and they should relate to footnotes at the bottom of th page
> or, sometimes on, a separate page at the end of the text; I don't
> think youcan guess what the numbers should be; I'm afraid you'll need
> the print book to be able to put them in.
>
> On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 6:34 PM, Kathy Hester <kathyruthh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> The footnotes in the book I'm currently working on aren't numbered. There
>> is a star to indicate each, and I haven't found more than one per page
> yet.
>> My common sense says not to mess with the asterisks--but that may not be
> the
>> agreed upon way to do them. Do I have to enclose the asterisks in
> brackets,
>> which seems to be an unnecessary thing?
>>
>> By the way--the scanning and proof reading manual referred to on the
>> Bookshare volunteer home page won't come up for me. The computer keeps
>> saying "Error on page" and it doesn't finish loading. Is that the old
>> manual, or is it the revised version? I know the revision used to be
>> somewhere else, but I don't have the link. I can't find it on the
> volunteer
>> home page.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Kathy Hester
>>
>> kathyruthh@xxxxxxxxx
>>
>>
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