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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans
Giving it some extra space around it with the brackets makes it much easier to push.
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That's not a bad suggestion, actually -- and I have seen books done with footnote markers done up like that, too (although generally they're done with superscript). I can see that that's more "clickable", though, for ebooks. I might consider doing that.
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Also, avoiding superscript footnotes is generally a good idea for certain typographical reasons in HTML/ebooks (not messing with the line-height, the footnote can be rendered at the normal font size (think accessibility reasons)).
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I don't know if this'll help anybody, but I ran into issues re line height, etc. when I was doing web design, and finally came up with some styling that seems to work great and not interfere -- and on top of that, the percentages are all perfectly conforming to/with the "golden section", and thus look good, visually, too.
If you do need to use superscript -- whether for footnote markers or for any other reason (perhaps you might want to have, say, the abbreviations for "Dr", "Sr", etc. written with the "r" in superscript, just to get fancy-schmancy) -- then maybe what I came up with will help others, too...
sup {
font-size: 76%;
line-height: 100%;
vertical-align : 38%;
}
62% for the font size would be more "perfectly" in line with the golden section, of course, but I found that a bit too small for readability in some cases/contexts, and thus went the next step up (still within those "golden" parameters).