Reply To: Convert Endnotes to Cross References?

Hi Matt,

Thank you for your kind words.

> What is the best way to do A? (I have DTP tools – is cross references pro the best tool for that?)

Yes, especially if you work with InDesign books, DTPtools’s cross-references are superior to InDesign’s. They work in a similar way, so if you’ve ever used InDesign’s cross-references, DTPtools’s xrefs will look familiar. Not only are DTPtools’s cross-refs quicker and more robust, they also let you do cross-references to footnote numbers, something that InDesign sorely lacks.

> What’s the benefit of cross refs vs. page hyperlinks?

In the PDF, page hyperlinks always show the whole page. With cross-refs you can target text anchors in InDesign, which means that in the PDF you can zoom in on the text where the cross-ref is.

> find endnote text that begins with a tab and a number (^\d+ in GREP).

Actually, the script (update now posted) looks for ^*\d+, i.e. including zero tabs.

Peter