Alan Litchfield wrote: > It's just that I have two tables on one page (both tables span pages, the > first starts on the previous page and the second finishes on the succeeding > page). Both tables have footnotes and so both have the same sequence of > letters. This may be a source of confusion for some readers because the > letter > "a" for the first footnote in the first table is on the previous page and > the > footnote is on the current page, but the first footnote in the second table > appears on the succeeding page but its letter "a" is on the current page. > > Therefore you have a table footnote on the current page and a letter "a" > too, > but they relate to different footnotes and tables. I know the footnote > appears > *above* the letter "a", but one can never under-estimate the lack of > comprehension of some readers.
I think you can justify living with it. Assuming these aren't the first tables with footnotes in this book, your readers will have had the opportunity to learn by previous examples that table footnotes always appear at the bottom of the table. If there is any intervening text between the two tables (even just a heading or table title), I think the chances of a normally functional human being getting confused are pretty close to nil. Trying to guard against the rare exception may lead you afoul of a corollary to Baker's Paradox: "Any procedure that anticipates every possible misunderstanding will be incomprehensible to all users." -- Mark Baker IMHO, YMMV, etc. Richard Richard G. Combs Senior Technical Writer Polycom, Inc. richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom 303-223-5111 ------ rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom 303-777-0436 ------ _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.