Reply To: Footnote alignment

I'm altering the font and making them superscripts in each note individually. I'm sure I'm missing a couple of tricks here. I guess I should post separate queries for all the problems I'm finding with footnotes …

It's possible you're having these problems because you are attempting to change them one by one. So it might just be InDesign saying to itself “Well he seems to be in charge”.

The tricks you are missing out on now are all available in the Document Footnote Options settings; for example, your oldstyle digits and superscript formatting can easily be done by creating a character style for these, and then setting this style to automatically apply to footnotes. However … if you already manually “messed up” your notes, it might simply not work anymore.

I also tried your ^>^i option, but nothing seemed to happen, so I think I must have misinterpreted the instruction.

That was supposed to go in the Document Footnote Options as well :)

.. How does it know where 'here' is?!

The code is called “Indent to Here” — a slightly better name would be “indent from here” — and 'here' would be the place where this code is inserted. In this case, if you have a note, en-space, and “Indent to Here”:

15.<en><HERE>Text …

the left indent of the following text is set to “<HERE>”.