In a non-fiction book intended for a popular audience, is it OK to have an appendix to an appendix? One particular paragraph in the main section will needs a couple of thousand words to prove ; so I put it in an appendix. But then one paragraph in that appendix needs a couple of tables and some calculations to prove. I don't want to interrupt the flow by putting it in the first appendix; but the tables and explanation are too big to reasonably fit in a footnote. And the tables need sourcing, which sort of makes putting them in an endnote problematic. So the appendix to an appendix seems like the best solution, but..
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'War Stories'
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Typo Boy - Apr 11, 2005 3:11:29 pm PDT #7349 of 10002
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Wolfram - Apr 11, 2005 3:31:11 pm PDT #7350 of 10002
Visilurking
Maybe call it a Diagram? Exhibit? Attachment? Annex?
Typo Boy - Apr 11, 2005 4:25:28 pm PDT #7351 of 10002
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Annex sounds good. Thanks Wolfram.
Gandalfe - Apr 11, 2005 5:39:07 pm PDT #7352 of 10002
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.
Tonsil?
Typo Boy - Apr 11, 2005 6:18:43 pm PDT #7353 of 10002
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Not carbuncle either.
Gandalfe - Apr 11, 2005 6:50:51 pm PDT #7354 of 10002
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.
Coccyx?
Ginger - Apr 11, 2005 7:13:01 pm PDT #7355 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Tumor?
Can you just put the table at the end of the appendix and refer to it as Table X?
dcp - Apr 11, 2005 7:45:44 pm PDT #7356 of 10002
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Lagniappe
Hil R. - Apr 12, 2005 4:22:41 am PDT #7357 of 10002
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One of my math textbooks actually had a "lagniappe" section.
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 12, 2005 5:44:54 am PDT #7358 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Speaking as a reader with no scholarly reading bent aside from hockey books, I'd say adding a little "see figure n" footnote in the appendix and adding it to the end might work. But an appendix to an appendix definitely evokes the image of Burgess Meredith in coke bottle glasses pulling a book off a top library shelf and blowing an inch of dust off it.