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NOTES
NOTES are a hindrance in composition and making-up. When they have to be affixed to a page that has engravings, or when they are many in number or are of unusual length, the maker-up is A long note may have its referencemark on the last line of the page, and the following page or pages may have other notes that cannot be shown complete in the proper place, but perplexed.[1]
- ↑ One of many excessively annotated books is the Histoire de l'origine et des premiers progrés de l'imprimerie [by Prosper Marchand],4to, à LaHaye,1740. The text is set in type of about fourteen-point body; the foot-notes are set in eight- and nine-point, in half-measure; the notes to notes in six-point, broad measure; side-notes in seven-point. Italic, parenthetical reference figures and letters of roman and italic, and spaced small capitals are profusely used, with sprinklings of Greek. Page 10 has but two lines and pages 11, 12, and 13 have but one line of text type, . the greater part of each page being filled with notes set in different measures. The composition and making-up of this matter
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