Reply To: Has anyone set endnotes keyed to phrases and line or page numbers?

Jim: Endnotes keyed to phrases and page numbers are in fact a kind of table of contents, and you can set them up as such.

The idea is to create the text of the endnotes in text frames anchored at the reference. For ease of identification, mark the key phrase in the text as conditional text (shows in the preview, doesn’t print). Those frames must be partially on the page otherwise the TOC won’t pick them up, but those frames can be set not to print. All this (and more) can be set up in an object style. The key phrases are in those frames as well.

Define the TOC style to place the page number before the entry, and when you generate the TOC you’re basically done. The formatting of the key phrases is handled by a nested style.

One thing that needs to be handled by a script is the removal of identical page numbers in the TOC, but that’s very simple.

Unfortunately I can’t attach the document here that shows the set-up. And I can’t manage to include a screenshot that shows what it looks like. If you send me an email at pkahrel@gmail.com I’ll send you the InDesign document.

Peter