How I dislike some books that give me less than a centimetre of margin. Robert Bringhurst’s book is exceptional and it is a beautiful thing. Let’s face it, book design and usability does not often win-out over commercial considerations. Putting notes in the side margins is nice if you can afford the space. Still, tradition dictates that in some books, there are footnotes and some there are endnotes (either at the end of the chapter or the end of the book). Robert Bringhurst doesn’t need to bother with those little superscript numbers because the supplementary information is very much nearby for the reader. In The Elements of Typographic Style, the notes are held in the side margins thus putting the information near and even alongside the reference in the text. If the notes are permitted to move around in the margins as they were in Renaissance books they can be present where needed and at the same time enrich the life of the page. …the academic habit of relegating notes to the foot of the page or the end of the book is a mirror of Victorian social and domestic practice, in which the kitchen was kept out of sight and the servants were kept below stairs. I start with a quote from Robert Bringhurst in his The Elements of Typographic Style 1 Sidenotes (sometimes called Margin Notes)įootnotes, Endnotes, Sidenotes and Popup Notes.
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