monocultured Posted March 25 Share Posted March 25 Hi, Is it possible to have the footnotes appear in a floating textframe instead of the set options in the Refercene->Notes panel? I'm unable to unpin the frame containing the notes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted March 25 Share Posted March 25 What are you trying to accomplish? Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.7, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monocultured Posted March 25 Author Share Posted March 25 I'd like to be able to style and position the footnotes just like I can any text-frame, without losing the connection to where the footnote is placed in the original text. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted March 25 Share Posted March 25 I'm curious if there's some specific scenario that needs that. More details on where you're trying to place it, relative to the original text. Publisher doesn't provide many options in this area, but if we understand more about why you need this we might have some suggestions. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.7, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monocultured Posted March 25 Author Share Posted March 25 So from your comments I'm assuming it's not possible without a workaround – just wanted to check if I'd missed a button somewhere… Indesign treats the footnote text-field the same as any other field, which is why I was looking for a similar solution here. Cheers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted March 25 Share Posted March 25 @monocultured Like @walt.farrell I too would like to know what you are needing. Could you make a small simple document that shows how the footnotes actually appear and then have some fake footnotes in separate text frames placed where you need them to be. While there are limits as to what can be done with footnotes there are also several options available as well. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.5.5 | Affinity Photo 2.5.5 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.5 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeTO Posted March 25 Share Posted March 25 You cannot move the footnote frames. You can format the notes however you like. To Walt's point, can you share an example of what you can't figure out how to do in Publisher that you can do in ID? Perhaps we will know a trick you haven't encountered yet. monocultured 1 Quote Download a free PDF manual for Affinity Publisher 2.5 Download a quick reference chart for Affinity's Special Characters Affinity 2.5 for macOS Sequoia 15.0.1, MacBook Pro 14" (M1 Pro) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monocultured Posted March 25 Author Share Posted March 25 Thanks for the replies y'all. I'm noodling with my (to be printed) design portfolio, and wanted the flexibility of moving the footnote text-frame around to try out different solutions. No biggie, it just would have been more convenient to have a text-box rather than wrangling the notes-settings. I'll get there by just copy-pasting the finished footnotes into a seperate text-box and move that around, but this brakes the note functionality which would have been nice to keep. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted March 25 Share Posted March 25 30 minutes ago, monocultured said: ... moving the footnote text-frame around to try out different solutions. ... Solutions to what sort of problem? Footnotes go at the bottom of a page, inside or outside of the text frame. Sidenotes are in the margins. Endnotes are at the end of a section/book/chapter. A variety of spaceing options are available, space between the main text and the footnotes, space between each footnote. Alignment options and justification options are available. As this is for your design portfolio maybe footnotes should not be used. Perhaps a numbered list Paragraph Style would serve you best. walt.farrell 1 Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.5.5 | Affinity Photo 2.5.5 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.5 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oufti Posted March 25 Share Posted March 25 1 hour ago, Old Bruce said: As this is for your design portfolio maybe footnotes should not be used. Perhaps a numbered list Paragraph Style would serve you best. If this option is chosen, you could even reverse the logic of notes and insert in the main text a cross-reference to the number of the paragraph in note. Quote Affinity Suite 2.5 – Monterey 12.7.5 – MacBookPro 14" 2021 M1 Pro 16Go/1To I apologise for any approximations in my English. It is not my mother tongue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfriedberg Posted March 25 Share Posted March 25 I have to say I was very much hoping the footnote/endnote feature would create and populate text frames which could be manipulated like standard textframes. I can't speak for monocultured, but I have found it handy on a few occasions to "cheat" the location of a footnote frame to avoid unsightly interactions with floating or inline illustrations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeTO Posted March 25 Share Posted March 25 The problem with allowing users to move footnote frames on their own is that the app will have to move the footnote frame when you edit the text in the main frame and a paragraph becomes one line longer or shorter. Without seeing the design I can't offer other solutions, but in general if you want to move a footnote frame up or down you can cheat. Use leading override to add space above the footnote. Or use a blank line with leading set to exactly whatever you want to add space above or below the footnote. Your settings will be preserved if you later edit the main text and a paragraph becomes longer or shorter. Oufti 1 Quote Download a free PDF manual for Affinity Publisher 2.5 Download a quick reference chart for Affinity's Special Characters Affinity 2.5 for macOS Sequoia 15.0.1, MacBook Pro 14" (M1 Pro) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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