Writing up ‘annotated solutions’
Your thoughts on writing annotations? E.g. do you enjoy writing them up? Is it a part of your setting, or more of an afterthought? How often do you start a clue with the annotation and then figure out the phrasing later? Do you usually read others’ after solving? Do you prefer longer or shorter ones? How about extra commentary or storytelling within annotations? Should annotations ‘have personality’? Would a uniform system for all be preferable, or even possible? Etc. (Is this even a worthy Forum topic?) I’ve found annotations to be an essential layer of proofreading, but my own system doesn’t “catch” everything (e.g., plonked bits). Thank you.
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I would love it if there was a standard for this, but some clues are very hard to write in an "algebraic" way. E.g., if you first select the outer letters of something, and then put those letters around something else. "Fodder without insides contains each fright", F(odde)R containing EA is very hard to write "neatly". But in general, I use: + For juxtaposition () For grouping, containers, or deletion (think I might start using [] for deletion) * For anagram >> For cycling < For reversal
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