Editing Note (typography) (section)

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In [[publishing]], a '''note''' is a brief text in which the author comments on the subject and themes of the book and names supporting [[citation]]s. In the [[book|editorial production]] of books and documents, typographically, a note is usually several lines of text at the bottom of the [[page (paper)|page]], at the end of a chapter, at the end of a volume, or a house-style [[Typography|typographic usage]] throughout the text. Notes are usually identified with superscript numbers or a symbol.<ref name="OCEL709">''The Oxford Companion to the English Language'' (1992) p. 709.</ref>

'''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.<ref name="OCEL709"/> However, [[graphic design]]ers of contemporary editions of the Bible often place the notes in a narrow column in the page centre, between two columns of biblical text.