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• • January 11, 2021 at 2:35 pm #14334444
    Amanda Weiss

    Participant

    Hi all,

    I’m writing because I have an endnote issue that I’ve never dealt with before. I’m a newbie to typesetting professionally, so this is not shocking.

    I have an instance of 12(!) endnote reference numbers (enref) at the end of one sentence (it basically looks like “12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23” in OpenType Superscript at the end of a sentence). As you can imagine, it looks ridiculous, and the client has requested an en dash between the note numbers.
    See here: https://i.imgur.com/MvvV6sL.png

    Unfortunately, when I manually input an en-dash, surprise, it becomes “12-13”, when I really want it to be “12-23”. I’m not even sure if this is possible.

    For reference:?
    – I imported the endnotes via a Word (docx) document in which all the enref and their accompanying note are all already linked
    – All notes correctly and automatically went to the end of the InDesign document
    – Each chapter has been broken into a Story, so the enref start from 1

    Any advice? Other than cry a little? (This is a large publisher and not an author, so I have no wiggle room to change the content, FYI.)

  • January 11, 2021 at 3:17 pm #14334445
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    Yeah… ouch! My first thought would be to look through some of Peter K’s scripts to see if anything might help: https://creativepro.com/files/kahrel/indesign/footnotes.html

  • January 11, 2021 at 3:32 pm #14334446
    Amanda Weiss

    Participant

    Thanks for your quick reply, David. Yes, I did take a look through the forum and through Peter K’s scripts page. Unfortunately, a lot of the scripts deal with converting footnotes, and this is such a weird, specific issue dealing with endnotes, that I’m not sure I’d be able to use them successfully (I also lack the knowledge to make a custom script). There was nothing I could find in the Document Endnote Options panel in InDesign either.

    Although, it seems like this isn’t the first time someone’s wanted something similar:

    End Notes Number Shows Extra Characters

  • January 12, 2021 at 5:05 am #14334457
    Dieter Stockert

    Member

    What is the reason for having 12 endnotes instead of one? There you could put the content of each of the 12 former endnote into a separate paragraph.

  • February 4, 2021 at 7:38 am #14334859
    Amanda Weiss

    Participant

    Great question, Dieter. Yes, that would have been preferred. Unfortunately, it was an editorial issue that should have been done earlier on in the process, which was outside my control as the typesetter.

    UPDATE: We decided to leave the en-ref numbers as is, sadly. Some of these guys sit right within the middle of a paragraph.

    After investigating, I’ve come to believe this ”range” just isn’t possible in InDesign as of CC 2020. The only workaround was to either condense all the notes as we mentioned; or “fake it”, and set the numbers in No Fill, and manually type and kern the superscript “12-23”, which was not very fun as en dashes rarely have superscript support. I realize now this could have been manually set/corrected from the beginning if the enref were not dynamic/linked.

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