For those of us writing training docs, Instructional technology
documentation uses APA (Publication Manual of the American Psychological
Association). This guide says to place footnotes double-spaced on separate
lines.
The 19th-century style mentioned was implemented to save paper, and is handy
when you have a great many footnotes. Gibbon's History of the Decline and
Fall of the Roman Empire comes to mind.
This should be an option in Frame--we shouldn't be locked into one style.
--Sean Pollock
Leraning Media Development, UGS Corp.
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From: "Art Campbell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Rob Shell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Framers
<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Footnote placement improvement for practical and
aestheticreasons
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 07:41:02 -0400
>According to the Chicago Manual of Style, which is the bible for
>most
>US academic writing, multiple short footnotes may be placed on the
>same line, but it isn't encouraged. However, I'd put multiples way
>down on my FM "want" list, after making the call-and-fix placement
>fix
>and a number of other fixes. ;- )
>
>Cheers,
>Art
>
>
>
>On 3/21/07, Rob Shell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Hi framies:
>>I have submitted a suggestion to Adobe for an improvement (copied
>>below) . I
>>wonder if anyone would support me? Again I am drawing my example
>>from 19th
>>century typesetting. "Back to the future department."
>>
>>Here it is:
>>
>>Improvement: Multiple short footnotes on a single line as in 19th
>>Century
>>books
>>
>>The FM page logic might be improved if Framemaker allowed 2, 3,4
>>footnotes
>>on a single line in the footnote region. Not all footnotes are long
>>and not
>>all need a full line.
>>My suggested improvement would look like this
>>_____________footnote sep line
>> 2This is the first footnote. 3 Ibid. 4 Loc.cit
>>
>>FrameMaker has a bad habit of placing footnote calls and notes on
>>different
>>pages. This suggestion might help and also make the page look
>>better.
>>
>>p.s. Anyone know how to keep the call and the footnote together
>>globally? My
>>latest document is 5,000 pages long and its tiresome to go through
>>the whole
>>thing....
>>
>>
>>Robert C.-H. Shell
>
>
>--
>Art Campbell
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> and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson
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