Footnotes/Endnotes

[Last Chance]

I was hoping that version 1.10 (surely this is v.2.0? 🤪), just released today, might just include footnotes and endnotes, but sadly not. So do we have to wait until after v.1.99 before footnotes get included, or perhaps v.1.999 ...?

[Petar Petrenko]

8 minutes ago, Last Chance said:

I was hoping that version 1.10 (surely this is v.2.0? 🤪), just released today, might just include footnotes and endnotes, but sadly not. So do we have to wait until after v.1.99 before footnotes get included, or perhaps v.1.999 ...?

Version 2.0 may come after 1.26 or 1.73 or 1.263... It depends when the foot/end notes will be ready.

[Trevor A]

Thank you for drawing my attention to this.  I hadn't opened Publisher today (!), as I received a sample print of the book from the printers and was checking every page carefully, mostly for print quality and colour as I hope that I trapped all typos at an earlier stage.

Perhaps the new version fixes bugs, one or two of which I have discovered!

Trevor

[schneeland]

I guess, like wizards, foot- and endnotes arrive precisely when they mean to

That being said, they are one of the features, I would like to see in Affinity Publisher (even if it means I have to buy the software again when v2.0 comes out).

[JerytheKID]

Couldn't agree more. I'm waiting to switch our office of 50 to Affinity but this is a critical tool in our work flow.

[Last Chance]

14 hours ago, Petar Petrenko said:

Version 2.0 may come after 1.26 or 1.73 or 1.263... It depends when the foot/end notes will be ready.

I know, I used to own a software development company ... just me being a touch cynical.

[cyberlizard]

the last post before this one was more than a month ago.  i suspect (potential) users are becoming disillusioned about the lack of clarity, otherwise there would more activity.

[Trevor A]

Perhaps the time has come for some patience while (we hope!) the people at Serif turn their attention to this, now that they have completed their recent superb upgrade, which improves memory handling and speed of operation phenomenally.  

[PaulEC]

52 minutes ago, cyberlizard said:

the last post before this one was more than a month ago.  i suspect (potential) users are becoming disillusioned about the lack of clarity, otherwise there would more activity.

Or they are getting fed up with 34 pages basically repeating the same thing!

Everyone (more or less) wants footnotes and endnotes.

Serif have indicated that they are coming, but we don't know when.

Just posting endlessly, asking for the same thing is not really going to make much difference!

[Trevor A]

Indeed!

[cyberlizard]

2 hours ago, PaulEC said:

Serif have indicated that they are coming, but we don't know when.

 

herein lies the problem.  there is a lack of communication on the matter, therefore we have neither closure (the arrival of the matter) or timeframe (as they will not or cannot say).

 

Steve

[orjwid]

A publishing program that cannot do foot notes and end notes is a contradiction in terms.

[crdasneves]

13 minutes ago, orjwid said:

A publishing program that cannot do foot notes and end notes is a contradiction in terms.

After 34 pages, the definitive description of the entire topic. 😉

[Trevor A]

Serif

You will be tired of us, but please do take note.  Anyone who wishes to prepare books for publication and is aware of this limitation is unlikely to buy your product.

Trevor

[Robert Robert]

I am using x7. After completing a document I went back to some spots to insert endnotes on certain pages the endnotes start renumbering at 1 and are inserted in the middle of the document. 
 

I’ve tried everything I can think of, kinking etc to get it to correct this. But it thinks some pages are a separate story. 

[Wosven]

56 minutes ago, Robert Robert said:

I am using x7. After completing a document I went back to some spots to insert endnotes on certain pages the endnotes start renumbering at 1 and are inserted in the middle of the document. 
 

I’ve tried everything I can think of, kinking etc to get it to correct this. But it thinks some pages are a separate story. 

Post your problem in another thread to get an answer, since this isn't relevant here. (And what is x7? You're using version 1.7?).

Here is just the Endnotes-footnotes lament wall.

[MikeW]

1 hour ago, Robert Robert said:

I am using x7. After completing a document I went back to some spots to insert endnotes on certain pages the endnotes start renumbering at 1 and are inserted in the middle of the document. 
 

I’ve tried everything I can think of, kinking etc to get it to correct this. But it thinks some pages are a separate story. 

If you are meaning PagePlus X7, please use the forum below:

https://community.serif.com/forum/search

[cyberlizard]

i'll take it there is still no news?

[Wosven]

No need to ask for news, just read the Beta release notes until it mentions footnotes/endnotes.

[Old Bruce]

8 minutes ago, Wosven said:

No need to ask for news, just read the Beta release notes until it mentions footnotes/endnotes.

Yes, but also I doubt that the inclusion of Feetnote Footsnote Notes will be a quiet event. Lots of chatter will occur.

[Wosven]

3 hours ago, Old Bruce said:

Lots of chatter will occur.

And certainly an announcement in this thread by the Team

[Giovanni Pietri]

es 24 de octubre y todavía estamos esperando que los serifianos nos digan cuándo darán una respuesta a esta broma de nota al pie.

[Trevor A]

Al ver un nombre italiano (supongo), yo esperaba algo en italiano.  ¡Me gusta la palabra "serifianos"!  Yo por aquí no he oído nada. ¡Saludos al Perú!

For non-speakers of Spanish, Giovanni says, "It the 24th of October and we are still waiting for the "serifians" (?!) to tell us when they will give a reply to this joke of footnotes."

I replied: "Seeing an Italian name (I suppose), I was expecting something in Italian.  I like the word "serifians"!  Hereabouts I have heard nothing. Greetings to Peru!

[Pyanepsion]

(Si sólo existieran las notas a pie de página.)

If it were only for the footnotes!

In many ways, Serif excites us with the quality of its Affinity suite. In other respects, Serif’s stubbornness in treating its customers as incapable of knowing what they need first or foremost, and its persistence in systematically ignoring customer reports of incongruous translations (instead of using a real specialist translator, their translation is the worst kind of Google translate) and their aberrant localization is staggering, to say the least.

The latest example has been reported many times over the past months: They decided to put a space in front of the apostrophe because in their regional language, the apostrophe is used for quotes. As a result, it is now impossible to write directly in the Affinity suite since the apostrophe is used in French and other languages only for elision, and is very common.

Quote

L'arbre de l'abricot ou de l'oranger d'Espagne est l'or de l'hiver.

becomes

Quote

L ’arbre de l ’abricot ou de l ’oranger d ’Espagne est l ’or de l ’hiver.

instead of

Quote

L’arbre de l’abricot ou de l’oranger d’Espagne est l’or de l’hiver.

 

[PatrickOfLondon]

38 minutes ago, Pyanepsion said:

L ’arbre de l ’abricot ou de l ’oranger d ’Espagne est l ’or de l ’hiver

Pyanepsion, I am sure you must have reported this as a bug in the appropriate place.

 

It's a very unacceptable "feature".