The Right Way to Change Word Styles to Direct Formatting
Using styles is a great way to ensure consistent formatting in a Word document. But, here’s a way to turn these styles into “direct” formatting.
Footnotes
Do You Make One of These Common Mistakes with Footnote Spacing?
Style manuals often require that footnotes have a blank line between them. There are two common mistakes about how to get this blank line.
The No-fail Way to Space Footnotes
Style manuals often require that footnotes have a blank line between them. The best method for achieving this spacing is to edit the footnote style.
Gadamer on the FĂĽhrerprinzip
In a note in his Truth and Method, H.-G. Gadamer comments, The notorious statement, “The party (or the Leader) is always right” is not wrong because it claims that a certain leadership is superior, but because it serves to shield the leadership, by a dictatorial decree, from any criticism that might be true. ( 389n22) ...
Citations in Footnotes in SBL's Footnote-bibliography Style
SBL Press has some helpful clarifications about citations in the footnote-bibliography, or traditional, style.
Full-height Footnote Numbers in Microsoft Word
Microsoft Word ties footnote anchors in the main text and footnote numbers at the start of footnotes to the same style. Consequently, it’s difficult to get full-height footnote numbers followed by a period (cf. Chicago Manual of Style, SBL Handbook of style). The process for getting this result discussed at Word MVPs does not seem to work in Word v16. But Word’s InsertFootnoteNow function can be intercepted to add the following macro commands to produce this result: ...