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Foot-notes that overrun
When
the width will permit it, the general appearance of the page will be improved by setting the
notes in half -measure without the dividing brass Each note should begin with the repetition of
rule.
the reference-mark in the text.
The marks
fur-
nished with the font of type are ungainly, but the superior figures frequently used in their stead may be so small as to be objectionably indistinct.
Long notes that overrun one page and appear on more than two pages can be avoided by giving up the page that follows the reference entirely to the note, but this treatment should not be attempted
without the permission of the author. Foot-notes should follow one another in the order
A
indicated by the references in the text. third or fourth note following a very long first note, all referred to on one page, can seldom be inserted on that
page. The first line of the first note must be kept on that page, but its overrun must be transferred to the foot of the next page,
and
this transferred
matter should be placed over the regular notes for the succeeding page, and be separated from them by a thin white line. This unfortunate alternative is a clumsy procedure, but it can be avoided when the author rewrites or rearranges the text and notes so that they can be kept near one another. 1
In a page of two or more columns the notes of Prosper March and's History of the Origin of Printing (Paris, 1740) has in its first chapter one overrun note that appears at the 1
foot of the six following pages,
and that is further elucidated by thirty-four subnotes set in a diff erent measure.