Library of Formatting Examples:Footnotes/00A

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and whose name he gave to one of his most beautiful creations.[1] She relates that the only out-door amusement he cared for was "building"--in what material does not appear. Among indoor diversions, that to [*** (extraneous image & text omitted to save space)] position so impressed his master that he accused him (much to the boy's indignation) of having copied it out of some book. His chief taste was for drawing, and he was anxious to become an artist; but his father could not afford to pay for his training.[2] At the age of fifteen, therefore, he had to set about earning his living, and was [Footnote 1: See Introduction to <i>The Wild Duck</i>, p. xxiii.] [Footnote 2: He continued to dabble in painting until he was thirty, or thereabouts.]

Numbers as anchors

This example shows numbered footnotes, which are very simple to handle. Make sure there are matching references in the text, except when marking the continuation of a footnote that began on an earlier page. When the references (anchors) and footnotes use numbers, no change to the identifiers is required. If you find a footnote without a matching reference in the text, leave a [**note]. If there is a missing footnote, leave a [**note], but first make sure the book isn't using endnotes; if it is, don't leave a [**note] because the post-processor will know that anyway. And when there's a continuation footnote, just add an asterisk before the tag; don't leave a [**note].

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