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Section on Footnotes and Endnotes #109

Open behnam opened 7 years ago

behnam commented 7 years ago

Section on Footnotes and Endnotes, covering:

behnam commented 7 years ago

Mixed-script counters (Persian and European numbers) and bidi layout, from "ketaab-e jom'e, 1st issue, 1st year, 1358":

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and

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Observations:

behnam commented 7 years ago

Same source:

On the last page of the article, footnote are put in a footer section that's below the text, but above the space filler image:

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ntounsi commented 7 years ago

Some samples of footnotes from an old book (collection of poems by Ahmad Chawki)

1) footnotes as aligned items list of type - ١ etc. itemslist in the text, footnotes are referenced (١) etc.

2) same type of list but "inlined" itemsinline

3) combined : aligned, "inlined", three type of numbering : ١) , -١- , -١) footnotes.pdf references are on the left side of the text. footnotes

shervinafshar commented 7 years ago

@mostafah volunteered to find more examples.

mostafah commented 7 years ago

I reviewed some books, looking for interesting footnotes.

Here’s an example of bidirectional footnotes:

bidi-in-footnotes

Here’s an example of multi-line bidirectional footnote:

multiline

And use of superscript for footnote numbers: superscript-notes

Adib Soltani’s “The Manual of Book Preparation” has a very interesting section on footnotes and endnotes, including these two pages that showcase a number of examples for numbering footnotes (I added English translations in color):

correct-numbering-1

correct-numbering-2

In the books that I saw, all-Latin footnotes were always written from left to right and use European numbers. I could not find a single exception. Adib Soltani’s “The Manual” even instructs so.

behnam commented 7 years ago

Thanks for the samples and info, @mostafah! I think now we're ready to start the drafting for this.

Also, related to this topic is defining the superscript behavior for the script, which is kind of obvious, but IMHO needs a clear definition before used for footnotes.