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Re: Footnotes/End notes formatting
- Subject: Re: Footnotes/End notes formatting
- From: "Patricia M. Godfrey" priscamg@xxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:57:54 -0500
Michael Norman wrote:
make non-fiction books more reader-friendly, publishers who feel that
general readers -- rather than specialized readers, which is to say,
scholars -- are annoyed by those little numbers that keep popping up at
the end of sentences,
Oh, for pity's sake. I learned to make footnotes in High School
(and to understand them when I found them in books). How much
more must we change the traditions of hundreds if not thousands
of years to accommodate the refusal of the so-called educational
system to educate?
--
Patricia M. Godfrey
priscamg@xxxxxxxx