I’m a big fan of footnotes and found this interesting; so I’m passing it along.
The Chicago Manual of Style recommends the following symbols for sequential footnotes (in section 12.51 of the 14th edition):
- *
- †
- ‡
- §
- ||
- #
- **
- ††
- ‡‡
- and so on…
I’ve seen elsewhere (in Churchill so maybe it’s a British thing) and in Docutils the replacement of || with ¶.
The boring old MLA says to just use numbers.
The Chicago Manual of Style, hm? Sounds like some pretentious fashion editorial.
In any event, I’ve always preferred numbers myself. Mostly because I lose track of all those little asterisks after awhile.
Does that make me boring, too? :-/
The whole point is that you don’t need to keep track of asterisks; there are all those other symbols to provide relief!
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