From: Pablo Rodriguez <oinos@gmx.es>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: body text invades space for notes
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2020 17:01:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <02ad8c41-dee0-2199-b411-e33a44154eb9@gmx.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f1956bcf-101f-0d9b-100e-e332903b74c4@free.fr>
On 3/4/20 12:44 PM, Jean-Pierre Delange wrote:
> Dear Pablo,
>
> It seems that we never should say "never" about things which appear all
> over the real world. I just go back to a previous assertion you made here.
Dear Jean-Pierre,
I said “I have never seen that...” not “I will never see that...”.
> I agree with you about footnotes which should be placed on the same page
> (I quote) :
>
>> Bottom notes are somewhat tricky in ConTeXt. The user expects that these
>> notes (either footnotes, or linenotes) aren’t moved to the next page. I
>> mean, no reader expects to find a full footnote in the next page from
>> the one that calls it. (At least, I have never seen that in any book
>> read or paged through.)
> [...]
> As a kind of sample, see the French translation of Nichomachean Ethics
> by Jean Tricot (1983 edition), Jean Vrin publisher, pages 201, 225-226,
> 245-246, etc. One can notice an effort to reduce the body text in order
> to let some space to footnotes. But this effort flaws on several pages...
This makes the perfect case for using endnotes.
> A way had have been chosen by publishers : "don't abuse about
> footnotes!", which is clearly impossible within academic books in
> Humanities...
Using endnotes would be a much easier approach.
Pablo
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-14 18:37 Pablo Rodriguez
2020-02-18 10:17 ` Philipp A.
2020-02-25 21:11 ` Pablo Rodriguez
2020-03-04 11:07 ` Philipp A.
2020-03-04 11:44 ` Jean-Pierre Delange
2020-03-04 16:01 ` Pablo Rodriguez [this message]
2020-03-04 15:51 ` Pablo Rodriguez
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