A Good Typesetting Rule, I think
rogersgeorge on November 12th, 2021
I saw this in a comment in one of my favorite newsletters (October 10, 2021, if you care to look it up), A word A Day.
In typesetting, it is sometimes better to use a symbol rather than a superscript number to indicate a footnote, particularly when your content is mainly numbers to begin with, like math or dates. For dates, it is conventional to use an asterisk for someone’s date of birth and a dagger for a date of death.
Craig Little, Mahwah, New Jersey
My practice has always been to use superscript number for footnotes when you have a lot of them, and an asterisk, dagger, and double dagger when I have three or fewer.
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