hum3
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On 9/3/2018 at 3:40 PM, Mike Perry said:
Add me to those voting for footnotes and endnotes, but with a strong stress on the later. Visit any university library and you'll find that endnotes replaced footnotes long ago, perhaps in the 1950s. In the era before computers, endnotes were far easier to typeset. In todays world, their appearance at the bottom of a page is seen as clutter by most readers. And being able to have both in the same document would be handy. Footnotes could be used at the bottom of a page to clarify ideas. Endnotes far away could be used to give references that most people don't read.
I would, however, agree with those who'd like to see footnotes handled in a more powerful way. Untangling Tolkien, my day-by-day chronology of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings was done in Framemaker, which allowed me create the equivalent of footnotes for references to the source in LOTR in a sidebar alongside the text to which it applies. That worked far better than bottom of the page footnotes or endnotes. I can't do that in ID.
Seriously? Giving the information on the page is way more user-friendly than having to constantly refer to another page. Function over form on this one – we are relaying information here, not sweeping it out of sight to make the page less 'cluttered'. If your footnotes look rubbish, then it is probably the designer....
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+ 1 for incorporation of picas. Pretty please!
Footnotes support in IDML import
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I don't know if there is a better way to 'bump' this request for IDML support importing footnotes, but its a +1 from me. I have ten days left on my InDesign subscription, so if you could do it by then I can be free of the tyranny of Adobe. Hurrah!