What's the best way to prepare endnotes for publication?

[anne marie devlin]

As Paul said, using MS word makes this process extremely easy and the pages can be automatically updated by right-clicking the endnote list and clicking update.
Anne Marie 



> Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 15:55:10 -0400
> From: paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM
> Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] What's the best way to prepare endnotes for publication?
> To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> 
> Andrea Gregovich wrote:
> 
> > Greetings Colleagues,
> >
> > I am preparing endnotes for a novel I translated that is heavy with
> > details from Soviet culture. I started working on them in a .doc file,
> > but then it occurred to me that my page numbers would be off that way
> > because, конечно, the page layout will change in the transition from
> > word .doc manuscript to bound book. This is a fairly new publisher whose
> > previous books have been novels not in translation, so I don't think
> > they've thought of this issue yet either. We're set on endnotes rather
> > than footnotes because the writing is very minimalist and we don't want
> > to clutter the pages with distractions.
> >
> > I see that there is Endnote software available, but I can't tell if that
> > would really suit my purposes here. Plus, we're on a shoestring budget
> > and I'd like to avoid personally buying software if possible. What have
> > you all done in the past in preparing Endnotes?
> 
> If you're working with MS Word, it's a simple option to tell it to use 
> endnotes instead of footnotes, and there's also a feature that converts 
> all footnotes to endnotes and vice versa. The details vary from version 
> to version, but for example in Word 2003 it's Insert | Footnote... and 
> at the bottom of the dialog, "Apply changes to: Whole document."
> 
> As for page numbers being off, that's really the publisher's job; yours 
> is just to verify that they didn't botch it when you look at the galleys.
> 
> -- 
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> --
> Paul B. Gallagher
> pbg translations, inc.
> "Russian Translations That Read Like Originals"
> http://pbg-translations.com
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