tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post5620209902436080598..comments2024-02-29T03:34:23.190-05:00Comments on Who Were the Sea Peoples?: Footnote Protocolgcallahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10065877215969589482noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-34914052494869182742013-05-19T15:54:49.808-04:002013-05-19T15:54:49.808-04:00Bob is closest to a publisher's perspective, b...Bob is closest to a publisher's perspective, based on my experience in the field. There's no great layout difficulty involved in putting notes elsewhere than at the end of a book, but most non-academic readers feel inconvenienced by text being broken up with footnotes that interrupt the flow of the work. A publisher also doesn't want a reader to flip through a book, chance upon interior pages cluttered with notes, and conclude that work is too dense to be worth purchasing. <br /><br />John Lukacs insists that the notes to his works be actual footnotes, not endnotes. But Lukacs also writes footnotes more like a writer than an academic, and there aren't usually too many on any given page.<br /><br />End-of-chapter notes make the least sense to me: they break up the book badly, but the reader still has to flip between pages to read them---and has to guess where a given chapter ends and its notes begin. Back-of-the book notes with a top-of-page header clearly telling the reader which body pages are covered on which notes pages are the least problematic for the general reader. Daniel McCarthyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07151051165704452294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-74888666680565790922013-05-17T20:21:23.224-04:002013-05-17T20:21:23.224-04:00Pet peeve here, too. I end up with two bookmarks.Pet peeve here, too. I end up with two bookmarks.Andyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07221537769343338514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-42565366616274280752013-05-17T16:59:38.391-04:002013-05-17T16:59:38.391-04:00I typically like to read the footnotes because I o...I typically like to read the footnotes because I often find good info, but I am less likely to do so when it is laid out like that. I will say that if they aren't on the bottom of the page, then I would prefer that they all be at the back of the book, that way it is at least a little easier to flip to them. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-31965292406627102592013-05-17T15:19:06.761-04:002013-05-17T15:19:06.761-04:00I did it that way in Chaos Theory because I didn&#...I did it that way in <i>Chaos Theory</i> because I didn't want the main text cluttered with long footnotes. Some people don't want to read the footnotes.Bob Murphyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04001108408649311528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-37398464214088086332013-05-17T15:02:41.739-04:002013-05-17T15:02:41.739-04:00Yes, 1000 times yes. I don't get it either.Yes, 1000 times yes. I don't get it either.Jonathan Finegold Catalánhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16710256011291680376noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-53619599835333889012013-05-17T13:34:59.957-04:002013-05-17T13:34:59.957-04:00Footnote placement is done by a GMO-free algorithm...Footnote placement is done by a GMO-free algorithm, using models developed by a best-practice process.Ken Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12976919713907046171noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-9859448960493941682013-05-17T12:53:05.056-04:002013-05-17T12:53:05.056-04:00End of the book makes more sense for ebooks, since...End of the book makes more sense for ebooks, since you can click back and forth easily. Josiah Neeleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04408537831149151396noreply@blogger.com