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• • October 15, 2012 at 2:54 am #63357
    moizngp

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    Hello,

    I'm working on a book where the design requirement calls for footnotes that are all in one line instead of seperate line for each footnotes.

    Like so, 1. some footnote text 2. some more text 3. some even more text.

    InDesign does it like so,

    1. some footnote text

    2. some more

    3. smoe even more text.

    As an aside there are not more then 2-3 footnotes on each page, and footnote text is mostly short.

    Kindly help.

    Thanks and regards.

  • October 15, 2012 at 7:50 am #63360
    David Goodrich

    Participant

    You can trick InDesign into putting 2 or 3 short footnotes on the same line by defining variants of the your main footnote paragraph style to indent to the appropriate point and then setting the leading to zero, which causes the 2nd and 3rd notes to overlap the line for the preceding note.

    Naturally, such trickery has drawbacks. First, it isn't automatic; however, Peter Kahrel offers a script that can help (along with a fuller description of the trick). Also, selecting an overlapped note for later re-editing is not simple — use the story editor. And obviously adding additional notes may require re-adjusting which special style is applied where.

    David

  • October 15, 2012 at 7:57 am #63361
    moizngp

    Member

    Thanks, I will try the script and tricks provided.

  • October 16, 2012 at 12:05 am #63364
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    Have you tried using a single row table? Its a bit more work but it might save you time in the long run.

    Vin

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