Footnotes on J. David Stark

The Right Way to Change Word Styles to Direct Formatting

Mon, 21 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000

Using styles is a great way to ensure consistent formatting in a Word document. But, here’s a way to turn these styles into “direct” formatting.

Do You Make One of These Common Mistakes with Footnote Spacing?

Wed, 06 Dec 2023 14:50:59 +0000

Style manuals often require that footnotes have a blank line between them. There are two common mistakes about how to get this blank line.

The No-fail Way to Space Footnotes

Mon, 20 Apr 2020 12:00:52 +0000

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.

Gadamer on the Führerprinzip

Mon, 13 Mar 2017 14:00:31 +0000

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)

Citations in Footnotes in SBL's Footnote-bibliography Style

Tue, 18 Oct 2016 11:00:00 +0000

SBL Press has some helpful clarifications about citations in the footnote-bibliography, or traditional, style.

Full-height Footnote Numbers in Microsoft Word

Tue, 19 Jan 2016 22:06:10 +0000

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 to work in Word v16. But Word’s InsertFootnoteNow function can be intercepted to add the following macro commands to produce this result: