On 6/3/2021 10:09 PM, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote:
Dear gang,
Generally, I do not use endnotes - see Robert Bringhurst's criticisms of endnotes in typography - but a publisher is demanding them. Converting footnotes to endnotes must be quite simple yet I'm missing it: Ah ... those publishers ... so you still need their demands? They should be glad that they get ready typeset books (I bet they often don't do a better job themselves, maybe aven introduce errors in the complex things you do). I thought they keyed it into word eventually anyway. End notes are definitely handier when they outsource I guess. Does that mean no more critical editions?
I admit that I do like endnotes more than footnotes when they for instance contain some more about the origin of some idea (or so) and suggest further reading ... (1) then i can read them all in one go (if I want) and (2) it's kind of a test if one can remember what it points back to. Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------