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 must be split and put in piecemeal on other advanced pages. To take back or to drive out notes heedlessly planned seems equally impracticable.

To diminish the annoyance made by notes, publishers and printers have agreed on the policy of setting them in small type and crowding them in the smallest space. A text in twelve-point leaded may have its notes in eight- or seven-point solid. So treated, the density of the small type and the openness of the large type are in violent contrast and make a forbidding page. When leading can be permitted it is better practice to lead both text and note, always giving to the text the thicker and to the note the thinner lead. A quarto or an octavo in single-leaded type on twelve-point body may have its notes in eight- or seven-point, with sixto-pica leads for the text and but ten-to-pica for the notes. A duodecimo in ten-point may have notes in six-point, with a similar discrimination in the selection of appropriate leads for each body.