Tag: Footnotes
The Right Way to Change Word Styles to Direct Formatting
Using Microsoft Word’s “styles” feature can help keep document formatting more consistent. But you sometimes need a document with only formatting but no extra styles. Fortunately, you can convert styles to direct formatting.
The No-fail Way to Space Footnotes
Style manuals often require that footnotes have a blank line between them. The best method for achieving this spacing is to edit the footnote style.
Do You Make One of These Common Mistakes with Footnote Spacing?
Style manuals often require that footnotes have a blank line between them. There are two common mistakes about how to get this blank line.
Gadamer on the Führerprinzip
In a note in his Truth and Method, H.-G. Gadamer comments, The notorious statement, “The party (or the Leader) is always right” is not wrong because it claims that a certain leadership is superior, but because it serves to shield the leadership, by a dictatorial decree, from any criticism that might be true. (389n22) That is,…
Citations in Footnotes in SBL’s Footnote-bibliography Style
The “Chicago Manual” gives guidance about how to cite sources for material inside footnotes. But SBL style has some different preferences.
Full-height Footnote Numbers in Microsoft Word
Microsoft Word ties footnote anchors in the main text and footnote numbers at the start of footnotes to the same style. Consequently, it’s difficult to get full-height footnote numbers followed by a period (cf. Chicago Manual of Style, SBL Handbook of style). The process for getting this result discussed at Word MVPs does not seem…