Yes. The original idea was to have some LLM place footnotes references in the text, based on the content of the footnotes themselves, but as I say in the blog post, that failed spectacularly.
Now another idea is to manually put placeholders for footnotes references in the text, and then number them automatically. Before that, I manually enter the number of footnotes on each page, for verification. I have already done this for the first two volumes, it's pretty fast. Having the number of footnotes on a page lets:
- check that the number of footnotes is correct
- (and therefore) also check that footnotes numbers are also correct (from 1 to n, in order)
- also check that the number of footnotes references is also correct (should exactly match the number of footnotes)
- and finally, properly number the placeholders.
Manually inputing numbers in the main text would be very difficult and error-prone, but simply putting placeholders and checking them automatically, should be much faster and safer.
Now another idea is to manually put placeholders for footnotes references in the text, and then number them automatically. Before that, I manually enter the number of footnotes on each page, for verification. I have already done this for the first two volumes, it's pretty fast. Having the number of footnotes on a page lets:
- check that the number of footnotes is correct
- (and therefore) also check that footnotes numbers are also correct (from 1 to n, in order)
- also check that the number of footnotes references is also correct (should exactly match the number of footnotes)
- and finally, properly number the placeholders.
Manually inputing numbers in the main text would be very difficult and error-prone, but simply putting placeholders and checking them automatically, should be much faster and safer.