[nabs-l] footnotes
Karl Martin Adam
kmaent1 at gmail.com
Sat Jul 23 03:55:25 UTC 2016
Footnotes are incredibly important. Often times they have
substantive comments, and even when they don't, they show you
what evidence a claim is based on, or in your case what statute
or case supports a particular legal interpretation. I'll put on
my history major hat for a second and also point out that looking
at footnotes and bibliographies is one of the best ways to do
research and find out what the important works are on your topic
if you start by reading the most recent thing you know of on your
topic and then read the important things that were cited and then
read the important things cited in those sources. Justin gave
you the commands for reading footnotes that are actually
formatted as footnotes in word, but typically in a scann the
notes are just part of the text either at the bottom of the page
or at the end of the book or chapter. I haven't had much trouble
with the note numbers disappearing, but I read mostly bookshare
books. You might try talking to your DSS and impressing on them
how important footnotes are if you have a systematic issue with
the numbers not showing up. Often changing scanner settings
affects things like this. If I'm reading something and the
detail is only moderately important, I just read the notes at the
bottom of each page, and it's typically clear what they go to.
If the notes are at the end of the book, I usually go read all
the notes after each chapter or sometimes each subsection. If
some claim made in the text is important to my research, I will
look up the note that goes with it using the search feature, and
similarly if I'm doing a close reading I'll go look up each
footnote by searching for that number and then searching
backwords to find the original note number and continue reading.
HTH,
Karl
----- Original Message -----
From: Jameyanne Fuller via NABS-L <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
To: "'National Association of Blind Students mailing list'"
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Fri, 22 Jul 2016 19:47:45 -0400
Subject: [nabs-l] footnotes
Hi all,
I've always hated footnotes. They're such a pain to find and
read, on my
computer or on my BrailleNote, especially since a lot of the time
when
something has been scanned or converted by the disabilities
services office,
the numbers for the footnotes are lost and I don't know what goes
with what,
so most of the time I just skim them or ignore them completely.
But I'm
guessing there might be some useful information in them, and I'm
pretty sure
they're important for law school. So is there some secret way to
read
footnotes that I'm missing?
Thanks for your help!
Jameyanne
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