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15755105 No.15755105 [Reply] [Original]

Do you prefer endnotes or footnotes?

>> No.15755114

I prefer the content not to jump around all over the place. Got something to explain? Explain it. Simple as.

>> No.15755121

footnotes baby

>> No.15755246

>>15755105

This is going to be a big concern for me when I finish translating Dante, because I really wanted to have the whole Comedy in a single volume, but I hate enormously long books because they're too heavy and they fall to bits and they're just unwieldy and impractical. There are 100 cantos and each canto is about 5 pages, so that's 500 pages without any notes or explanatory crap. So either you have to cut the notes to the bone or you need a separate Companion (as with Ezra Pound Cantos).

The text is iambic pentameter, which usually leaves some room down the side, so I was wondering if it was feasible to write the notes in at the side, sort of the way Coleridge does in The Ancient Mariner. So when Dante refers cryptically to some Pope or something you just stick the guy's name at the side.

>> No.15755299

Endnotes without markers (?) in the text for fiction where the notes are added by an editor, translator etc.
Footnotes for nonfiction.

>> No.15755307

E-books/Kindle solves this problem.

>> No.15755422

>>15755246
>when I finish translating Dante
poast excerpt

>> No.15755452

>>15755105
Footnotes that take nearly half the page or more annoy the fuck out of me so endnotes it is.

>> No.15755490

I like footnotes but it's really a question of time Vs page efficiency
Footnotes seem like they'd make a book longer but you don't need to go back and forth
Endnotes would make a book shorter but you need to go back and forth

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>>15755422

>> No.15755496

>>15755105
If I want to read them: footnotes
If I want to ignore them: endnotes

>> No.15755677

>>15755490

Footnotes might make a book a little bit longer but not much. Their main drawback is they're harder to ignore. If you just want to read the text without them, they make it much harder. You have to actively ignore them and turn the page about twice as often. There's an edition of Hamlet (maybe Arden) which has about two lines of actual play per page, and then 20 lines of footnotes.

>> No.15755733

>>15755246
>when I finish translating Dante
based

>> No.15755764

endnotes should be used when it's just citations to other books, etc. when it's actually necessary info to be read, it should be at the bottom of the page

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>>15755105
Endnotes make everything unreadable.

>> No.15756295

>>15755114
cringe

>> No.15756303

>>15755105
I prefer hyperlinks

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>>15755105
footnotes for text
endnotes for citations

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15756323

I literally never bought or borrowed an academic book so I'm just used to opening two pdf files if there are endnotes. Not a problem to me, I just take life as it is. Check these dubs

>> No.15756351

>>15755495
make a thread when it's published, I want to buy it