Setting up a character style

[Pyanepsion]

Hello everyone.

I would like to simulate footnotes.

This means a footnote call that uses a specific character style with incremental numbering and a footnote with a specific style.

The difficulty is to be able to automate the numbering of the footnote calls.

Like this, in green. How do you get this footnote call to use an incremental number and be preceded by a thin space?

Thank you for your explanations.

 

callnote.afpub

[Wosven]

It's nearly impossible... Unless you pin text frames with an ordered list in it. No need to add an extra space, indent/space before the list will do.

You "just" need to add manually those numbers in the frames to increment them... 

But it's a lot of work, and only worth if the authors add or delete notes. 

[Pyanepsion]

Hello, Wosven. It seems to me that you were the one who suggested pinned mini text frames for footnotes in the past.

8 hours ago, Wosven said:

It’s nearly impossible…

But it’s a lot of work. 

Yes, Serif should be made aware of the importance of footnotes in DTP, as well as the quality of translations [at least in French] which accumulate misunderstandings.

One gets the impression of these two crucial areas that a project manager has decided that it is of little importance/little market share/or whatever and is ignoring it go without realizing that he is greatly destroying the interest of the software he is supposed to be bringing to fruition.

Well. In the meantime, the only quick method I’ve found for note calls is to create a Note Call character style, handwrite my numbers, apply the character style to that number and then do a replace all on ‘Note Call’ with ‘Fine Space Note Call’. The spaces before the number are essential to the external tools (another essential failing that Serif did not understand) for correction aid so that the preceding word is not considered an error.

[Wosven]

Here an example and simple explanations I'll develop later, since I'm late now  

Test_notes.afpub

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[Pyanepsion]

Yes, this is indeed the replacement technique used in the two examples above until Serif realizes the urgency of the matter. However, the typographic rules of the graphic charter may require you to recreate the superscripts yourself, hence the need for the requested functionality.

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