Footnotes at the page.bottom in a document with several textframes

[alexbehindthemoon]

Hi, I'm a affinity newbie an have my first problem.

In a document with several textframes I need a footnote-body at any end of the pages. Is there a posibility? I tried so many things... 

Thank you!

[MikeTO]

For the simple two-column layout on the right page, just create a text frame with two columns instead of two separate frames and use the Positioning > Note Position > Bottom of Frame option.

The left page is more complex. Typically you would create it with a horizontal frame at the top and a single frame below it that is divided into two columns, with the top frame linked to the bottom frame. If you use Bottom of Frame for this setup, a footnote in the top frame would appear at its bottom rather than in the frame below. There isn't a way to do what you want now, but hopefully someday it will be possible to span text across multiple columns and then you could use a single frame to achieve this layout.

For now, you might have to fake it. I assume the left page layout is for the start of a chapter. Hopefully you're restarting footnote number with each chapter. If this is the case, then the first footnotes that might happen to be in that small frame at the top of the left page would be limited to 1 or 2. In this case, I would type fake footnote reference numbers in the correct positions. Then near the top of the left column of the bottom frame, I'd insert the actual footnotes and just change those footnote references to be invisible by changing their fill to none.

Good luck!

[alexbehindthemoon]

Hello Mike, thank you very much for your detailed answer! I thought it would be complicated.

Unfortunately, the text does not flow from the left column to the right one, but from the respective column to the column on the next page. Because the text is bilingual in some chapters. The book will be over 400 pages so I need to minimize the effort. I'm still working with InDesign at the same time. Let's see if there is a solution to the problem. Thank you again!

[walt.farrell]

29 minutes ago, alexbehindthemoon said:

Unfortunately, the text does not flow from the left column to the right one, but from the respective column to the column on the next page.

That can be done easily, too, depending on how you have the Master Pages set up and how you have done the Linking there. Rather than a 2-column Text Frame you need two individual frames. On Master A you would link the left frame on the left-hand page to the left frame on the right-hand page, and the right frame on the left-hand page to the right frame on the right-hand page.

Then your left "columns" will flow to the left "columns" of the next page, and the right "columns" will flow to the right "columns" on the next page, which I think is what you want.

[alexbehindthemoon]

Thank you Walt! That's exactly how I did it now. However, this doesn't solve my problem with the footnotes. I like MikeTO's solution with the fake ones better and better.