[uebc5] Re: marginal notes
- From: "William Jolley" <wjolley@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <uebc5@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 15:39:23 +1100
Hi Reinette and Others
I see no need to distinguish between Footnotes and Marginal notes. Marginal
notes are a newer feature than footnotes, perhaps this is why 'marginal
notes' is two words and 'footnotes' is one word. I maintain my previous
position about notes: Marginal notes and footnotes should be shown at the
end of the paragraph to which they refer.
Cheers
Bill
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Reinette Popplestone" <rpopples@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <uebc5@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 10:50 PM
Subject: [uebc5] marginal notes
>
> Do we need to make a distinction between marginal notes and footnotes -
this
> seems to me the next question.
> Is it necessary to indicate the position of a note on the page?
>
> It does seem to me that footnotes and margin notes tend to have rather
> different purposes or functions - a marginal note is more likely to
explain
> a term or give its pronunciation or something like that -in other words,
> information you are more likely want immediately to hand. But perhaps more
> important, marginal notes often lack reference marks. For that reason
> current BANA rules make provision for braille reference marks. I presume
we
> would not want these in UEBC. Would one way of dealing with this problem
be
> to recommend placingl marginal notes or notes without reference marks on
the
> next braille line to which they refer?
>
> Any comments?
>
> Have a good week-end anyway.
>
> Best
>
> Reinette
>
>
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