Forgive the double post, but while looking through my archives, I stumbled upon this book I completed a few months ago. A Treatise on Political Economy by Jean-Baptiste Say.
Now this is another HORROR example of footnotes. There are three sets of footnotes, and lots of footnotes in footnotes:
- *, †, ‡ are original footnotes
- I changed to [1] [2] [3] ...
- (a), (b), (c) are Translator footnotes
- I changed to [a] [b] [c] ...
- (1), (2), (3) are American Editor footnotes
- changed to [#1] [#2] [#3] ...
I changed everything to consecutively numbered/lettered per chapter, and placed the footnotes all in the order they appeared in the text.
I have attached the completed EPUB to this post if you are interested.
Here is an HTML version by OLL (Online Library of Liberty):
http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php...74&layout=html
Note: Their version decided to jam original+translator notes into [1]-[###], which lost the importance of which were which, and the American Editor footnotes were oddly turned into asterisks... which just makes it impossible to navigate back in an EPUB (as you can see where they stuck them, the entire section turns into "[*]" links). Plus the order the footnotes are in makes slightly more than zero sense.
Here is the cleanest PDF version on Archive.org that I based much of the EPUB work on:
https://archive.org/details/atreatiseonpoli02biddgoog
As you can see, in a situation such as this (this is really up there with the worst case footnote scenario), any sort of in-line footnotes would get wildly out of hand. While my method of sticking all of it at the end and in the order it appears to have worked out quite well.