Help:Sidenotes

Works with extensive sidenotes cannot be transcribed exactly as they appear in printed scans (due to technical limitations of the wiki format).

This page details how to transcribe them, so that they will be recognised and rendered in appropriate manner when Mediawiki is able to fully support them.

Sidenotes in the Page namespace
In some instances they can be omitted, for example chapter headings to aid navigation which would not be relevant if the text is presented in an unpaged form. To include these for completeness use: sideheadered-page in the header portion of the Page: concerned. This will not display in main-space or on transclusion.

For a book with sidenotes, each page in the Page namespace that has sidenotes should have  in the header and   in the footer. The easiest way to achieve this is to add these templates to the default header and footer in the Index page.

In a physical book, sidenotes are printed on the outside edge of a page. This should be copied in the Page namespace, by using the templates outside L for sidenotes on the left and outside RL for sidenotes on the right. Alternatively use left sidenote for sidenotes on the left and right sidenote for sidenotes on the right.

Sidenotes in the main namespace
The following table details what sidenotes will look like in the main namespace in each of the dynamic layouts.

If using the "outside" templates, you will need to add  to each main-namespace page containing sidenotes in order for them to display correctly.

If using the "sidenote" templates, you can choose the layout you prefer.