Hedley Finger wrote: > Mike: >> Is a note in the intro stating: "Quoted material is formatted with a >> light brown font color" adequate?
<SNIP> > If you don't acknowledge the owner, then, ahem officer, we appear to be > at a crime scene and the perp is a plagiarist. But if you revise or > reword it substantially, then you have a paraphrased sidebar, the > copyright is yours, and the owner of the original phrase does not have > to be acknowledged. Yep, you are right - I am undecided about this, but I am leaning towards the same way I attributed the sources on my site. See: http://epicroadtrips.us/2007/summer/california/#ert07CA_D1_12.jpg > As a way of indicating a sidebar, I like the brown colour! I'd do > something about those deep indents, though, especially if you have some > one- or two-line paras. I am leaning toward Greg's take on this: >> 2. the brown sans serif font is a matter of taste, I think. Personally, >> the different font face seems enough, so I'm not sure that making it >> another color is necessary and might lead to legibility issues in >> certain lighting. Making it black might also allow it to be just a bit >> smaller if that's any advantage for contrast. -GP I printed out some pages and the brown color seems to dominate. Something I do not want. In the web version it seems to work, but in print the brown really stands out. The indents I am going to fix by creating a style for my "normal" text as Greg suggests. BTW - this is why I am going to beat my first chapter to death! I hope to make most of my mistakes with the first chapter, get them fixed and then proceed. I am slow, so you will have to bear with me. Thanks to you both for your suggestions. I rely on and value the ideas you all have. -Mike
