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

[Ivan S. Eubanks]

As someone already said, it's really the publisher's job to worry about 
that. I believe most publishers would use XML, which would attach 
endnotes (or, for example, items in an index) to specific words or 
passages in the main text. XML allows the two parts of the book (i.e., 
the notes and the passages they go with, or the index and the iterations 
of the words in it) to remain attached to one other regardless of 
pagination or format, such as print versus e-book.

Ivan S. Eubanks, Ph. D.
Editor, Pushkin Review
www.pushkiniana.org
Director, Center for Writing and Communication
New Economic School, Moscow
www.nes.ru

On 23/07/14 16:44, Michele A Berdy wrote:
>
> Prof Israeli, I'm probably not the best person to answer this, but as 
> I understand it, the endnotes are "connected" to a place in the text, 
> not a specific page. You can add or subtract from the text, and the 
> place in the text that the endnote is attached to might move from page 
> 12 to page 24 -- and the endnote, clever thing, knows that and changes 
> to read "p 12" or "p 24." And when the whole text gets converted from 
> Word to whatever program it is printed in, the endnotes -- very clever 
> things! -- will cite the new page numbers.
>
> *From:*SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list 
> [mailto:SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU] *On Behalf Of *Alina Israeli
> *Sent:* Wednesday, July 23, 2014 6:32 PM
> *To:* SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> *Subject:* Re: [SEELANGS] What's the best way to prepare endnotes for 
> publication?
>
> Am I missing something or are the people who replied missing 
> something? Andrea said that these are notes to a novel. To my 
> knowledge only very rarely are translations marked with footnotes in 
> the text, usually in case of foreign words that are translated at the 
> bottom of the page. But commentary and Notes are not marked. I am 
> holding in my hands "Catherine the Great" by Robert Massie, it has 
> lots of notes in the back but none marked in the text.
>
> So if this is a case of Andrea's novel, I don't see how it can be done 
> with MS files etc. prior to book lay out and new pagination. That is 
> the text of the notes can be prepared, but how would they have the 
> right page numbers?
>
> Alina Israeli
>
> Associate Professor of Russian
> WLC, American University
> 4400 Massachusetts Ave.
> Washington DC 20016
> (202) 885-2387
>
> fax (202) 885-1076
>
> aisrael at american.edu <mailto:aisrael at american.edu>
>
> On Jul 23, 2014, at 5:02 AM, Andrea Gregovich <agregovich at GMAIL.COM 
> <mailto:agregovich at GMAIL.COM>> wrote:
>
>
>
> Thanks everyone! Turns out there's a simple solution, I somehow hadn't 
> noticed that Word has an endnotes function. I appreciate all the help!
>
> Best,
> Andrea Gregovich
>
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