Le 17/04/2017 à 20:25, Guenter Milde a écrit :
... just after the word which refers to the footnote, ...
What happens in French, if the footnote refers not just to a word but a
complete sentence?
I reviewed the web literature about the subject. The French typographic
tradition forbids footnote reference after a punctuation mark, and the "Lexique
des règles typographiques en usage à l'imprimerie nationale" enforces this.
I found the distinction mentioned when the footnote references a citation in the
text, the footnote reference *may* be positioned after the closing guillemet.
In all the French documentation, I have consistently put the footnote reference
before any punctuation mark (I did not review the literature for this, this is
how I learned long ago).
--
Jean-Pierre
