Well, this is how I would handle it... :) [Footnote 1: *poem fragment* The footnote text itself.] The footnote number would be the poem line number it refers to. JHutch ----- Original Message ----- From: "Al Haines (shaw)" <ajhaines@shaw.ca> To: "Project Gutenberg Volunteer Discussion" <gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org> Subject: Re: [gutvol-d] Marking Bold in text files Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 13:39:20 -0800

Hmm... Hopefully I haven't opened *too* big a can of worms here <G>, so I'll re-cast my question in terms of the specific book I'm working on.

It's a textbook on selected poems of Tennyson and Wordsworth. The poems have line reference numbers every 10 lines, and those and interim line numbers are used to refer to footnotes.

Each footnote consists of the line number (not bolded), then a fragment of that line of the poem (bolded), then the footnote body (not bolded) discussing the fragment.

It's the use of asterisks around the fragment portion of the footnote that my question was directed to.

----- Original Message ----- From: "Joshua Hutchinson" <joshua@hutchinson.net> To: "Project Gutenberg Volunteer Discussion" <gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org> Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 12:34 PM Subject: Re: [gutvol-d] Marking Bold in text files

----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathan Walther" <krooger@debian.org>

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On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 02:51:40PM -0500, Joshua Hutchinson wrote:

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Well, technically, we were here first... They reinvented OUR wheel! ;)

PG has been using _ to indicate italics for as long as I can remember.

Is each word individually italicized? It would look messy, but be robust.

No, each section of italicized words is marked.

EXAMPLE:

This is a sentence with _an italicized phrase_.

This is a sentence with *a bolded phrase*.

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The obvious problem with this encoding is that it can be very difficult to determine that every opening _ is closed by the appropriate _. That is one of the reasons DP uses <i></i> and <b></b> in the proofing interface instead.

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