A Zoology of Annotations

I delimit italicized text with underscores. (I don't have any page-long italicized passages, so any such are probably due to loss of "underscore-parity".)

(The Clarinet edition supports italicized fonts, so this convention will probably be transparent to you.)

Embedded comments have ^ as the first non-whitespace on the line. Commands to my formatter (inherited from Kernighan and Plauger's Software Tools, Addison-Wesley, 1976!) use a similar convention:

^bp  page break

^ls  n    linespacing

^he  s    define page header

^fo  s    define page footer

etc.

My formatter prints the pair ampersand numbersign (&#) as a single numbersign (#). Thus, I use &#&#&# as a section break. When a numbersign (#) is not preceded by an ampersand, it is supposed to be a single space. (I use this character to force vertical whitespace and as part of the indent for paragraphs.)

Where the first alpha characters on a line are NOTE, you are normally seeing a note to the copyeditor. (I use this mostly to flag the beginning of monospace font (eg, Courier) for the Net messages.)