Re: Footnote Spacing

[John Cumming jcumming@xxxxxxxx]

Yes, as a matter or fact, the problem does occur for me with
double-spaced text, which we are required to use for legal briefs. On
those occasions when I write single-spaced letter briefs, I have the
problem of not getting footnote numbers to appear in reduced-sized
superscript -- a problem I have seen discussed on this list but not
solved in a way I can understand.


Nathan Sivin wrote:

> The footnote spacing problem that John Cumming asks about is not
> restricted to XyWrite. It generally happens with double-spaced
> text, which most word-processor developers don't give much
> thought. I read lots of student papers, **all** of which are
> prepared with Word. It is extremely common for footnotes keyed to
> sentences near the top of a page to appear on the next page. When
> I have seen this problem in my own XYDOS files, it disappears
> when the text is single-spaced (that's not much consolation). I
> don't remember that it occurs in XyWin files, but maybe I just
> didn't notice. And it doesn't happen all the time in XYDOS. I
> wonder, by the way, whether it turns up in Nota Bene, which is
> advertised as an academic writer's word processor?
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Nathan Sivin
> History and Sociology of Science
> University of Pennsylvania
> Philadelphia PA 19104-6304
> (215) 898-7454
> nsivin@xxxxxxxx