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 note is short and does not fill the line, it may be set in the centre of the line. When there are two or more short notes to the page, they may be put in half measure, if each note has enough of white space at the end of every paragraph to make it readily distinguishable as a separate note. (See page 28.)

The old-fashioned paragraph indention (which is objectionable in a succession of short notes in full measure that make wide blanks at the ends of the second lines) can be avoided, when there is only one note to the page, by centring the second line.

When the only note on a page makes more than one line, and overruns a few words on the second line, centre both lines after this fashion

If there are not words enough to make a fair showing of the second line, shorten the first line by equal indention on each side.

It was an old fashion to separate the note from the text by a hair-line rule that extended the full width of the measure. Some printers used a short rule in the centre or at the left of the measure for the same purpose. These fashions now find few imitators, for there is no need of a cross-rule in a book of text and notes only. When extracts in the text