e-Footnotes – the place and the future of footnotes in the Digital era
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.12775/SE.2017.0026Keywords
footnotes, history of typography, history of typesetting, DTP, typesetting, computer typesetting, TeX, troff, WWW, electronic book, e-bookAbstract
Contemporary footnote, and electronic footnote in particular, is a product of many diverse currents of thought and concepts – some of them being a direct continuation of typographic traditions and some without any apparent connection to them. The following article makes an attempt at exploring as great number of such concepts as possible, while keeping them in their a proper historical context and trying to emphasize the relations between them, should there be any. Starting with the methods of traditional typography and the place of footnotes in regard to these methods, we move towards early, relevant ideas underlying information revolution, onto the area of computer typography, WWW and electronic books, to finally present some potential ways in which footnotes as we know them may evolve in the future. The whole is complemented with example codes of documents in troff and LaTeX showing the specifics of working with footnotes in these systems, images of their resulting documents, screenshots illustrating how footnotes are handled by Adobe InDesign application, as well as examples of footnotes typical for WWW technologies and e-books.
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