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114 to be inserted should be indicated by writing, "Here insert A," etc., on the margin of the original pages.

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Paragraphs should be plainly indicated, either by indenting the first line or by a ¶ mark.

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Footnotes should be clearly designated, either by separating them from the text by running a line across the page, or by using ink of different color. Some writers make a perpendicular fold in the paper, using two-thirds of the space for the text and one-third for the notes.

The word in the text carrying the note should be followed by a superior figure corresponding to that preceding the note.

Footnotes should never be run into the text in manuscripts, whether in parentheses or otherwise.

— It is important to remember that in matter set on the linotype machine the slightest change necessitates the resetting of the whole line. Since it is impossible to foresee how the notes will happen to come out in the make-up, it is impracticable to number them from 1 up on each page. The best way is to number them consecutively throughout an article or by chapters in a book; bearing in mind, however, the very essential point that the change, by omission or addition, of one single number involves the resetting of the whole first line of each succeeding note to the end of the series, as well as the line in the text bearing the reference to the note.

This difficulty is not met with in matter set on the monotype machine or by hand, where the change of a number amounts simply to substituting one figure for another.