[blindlaw] Footnotes and Endnotes in L. Rev. articles

[Al Elia]

Author them in markdown. Then, use pandoc to convert the markdown to a word file. It will handle the footnotes for you, then you can simply clean up your formatting in word.


Best,

Al, who is brusquer than usual because he's typing on an iPhone.

> On Jun 19, 2015, at 10:08 AM, Laura Wolk via blindlaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Chris,
> 
> I don't have much practical advice here. I had the same problem on my
> personal laptop. Fortunately, it doesn't seem to be a problem on my
> work machine or the laptop with Jaws at the law school. So, I have
> been lucky enough thus far to be able to solve my problem by using an
> alternate machine.
> 
> FWIW, when I spoke to Freedom scientific, they said this is a bug and
> they don't know why it happens with some copies of Jaws and not
> others. so the only thing I can recommend is to call FS and nag them
> to make fixing this bug a priority, as I imagine they may not get very
> many complaints about it.
> 
> Laura
> 
>> On 6/19/15, Stewart, Christopher K via blindlaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>> 
>> For the past year, I've simply struggled with footnotes and endnotes
>> in my law journal assignments, patiently waiting for JAWS to read
>> them. I've heard others complain of JAWS' lack of responsiveness in
>> these fields, but I'm wondering if anyone has any suggestions. Is it
>> my computer? Is it Word? Is there any sort of workaround? One thing I
>> did was to copy and paste all the footnotes into the body of a second
>> document, edit them accordingly, then paste them back in, but even
>> this is clumbsy when I already have several documents open containing
>> source material, my own notes, Etc. I appreciate any advice.
>> 
>> Best,
>> Chris
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Chris K. Stewart
>> University of Kentucky College of Law, J.D. Candidate, 2016
>> Senior Staff Editor, Kentucky Law Journal
>> Co-President, American Constitution Society
>> President, Election Law Society
>> California Institute of the Arts, B.F.A. 2010
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> 
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> Laura Wolk
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> Notre Dame Law School, J.D. Candidate, 2016
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