Note (typography)

<p>In <a href="/facts/Publishing/7g01YeYG">publishing</a>, a note is a brief text in which the author comments on the subject and themes of the book and names supporting <a href="/facts/Citation/V9cIWxl8">citations</a>. In the <a href="/facts/Book/Yylgt4AC">editorial production</a> of books and documents, typographically, a note is usually several lines of text at the bottom of the <a href="/facts/Page_(paper)/Dm28TSkI">page</a>, at the end of a chapter, at the end of a volume, or a house-style <a href="/facts/Typography/byx4sANl">typographic usage</a> throughout the text. Notes are usually identified with superscript numbers or a symbol.
</p><p>Footnotes are informational notes located at the foot of the thematically relevant page, whilst endnotes are informational notes published at the end of a chapter, the end of a volume, or the conclusion of a multi-volume book. Unlike footnotes, which require manipulating the page design (text-block and page layouts) to accommodate the additional text, endnotes are advantageous to editorial production because the textual inclusion does not alter the design of the publication. However, <a href="/facts/Graphic_design/CJu4SYuG">graphic designers</a> of contemporary editions of the Bible often place the notes in a narrow column in the page centre, between two columns of biblical text.
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