Reading a Word About the Articles' Format Will Make for Easier Reading A web page need not look like a regular printed page any more than a TV news show, or for that matter a news magazine, needs to look like a newspaper. An effort will nevertheless be made to make the articles in this web site similar in appearance to those in a law review, of which Valparaiso University Law Review will be taken as typical. This is particularly appropriate for the article from that publication. A web page, however, does not have any relevant limitation to its length. It could be the length of a law review page or the length of a law review article, even though the window in one's web browser will not let one see the full length of a long page all at once. The dynamic sizing of web pages, width as well as length does not nicely harmonize with that of traditional law review pages. The continuing length quality of a web page can be a strength, however, just as can the size and layout of a regular page.
A functional quality of the appearance of a law review page is the proximity of footnotes to the related text. Endnotes are bothersome. The web writing language HTML, however, does not have automatic footnote functions. Nor is there the equivalent of a hard return while utilizing the the continuing quality of a web page.
The following conventions will therefore be followed in an effort to combine the functionality of web site presentation with the the functionality of regular pages.
1. Footnote numbers in text will be designated (Fn _).
2. Manual placement of a line like this
accross the page will indicate the beginning of footnotes and of two such lines like this,
which may vary in their spacing, will indicate page breaks.3. A page number will appear between the page break lines except where required to be true to an original.
4. Page breaks so designated will be faithful to an original even though the last word of text does not land at the end of the line due to difference in page widths.
5. Each web page will be limited to four original pages, or their equivalent, for manageability, before it is necessary to link to the next page, except for a special reason, perhaps that the whole document is only five pages.
6. Each of the four pages will resemble a regular page in appearance.
While web technology is astonishing to those of us born the year TV (a term whose meaning is known by the speakers of many languages) was introduced, and who remember growing up with black and white TV, there remain idiosyncracies with which we must live. I found it frustrating to print web pages and see that WYSIWYG did not apply until I learned why in web drafting. Don't worry, it's not TEOTWAWKI. (Welcome to the idiom of the third millenium!)
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