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• • July 3, 2013 at 10:54 pm #34169
    Gert Verrept

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    I’m looking for an easy way to get the footnotes look like this: in the text they have to look like this (1). No problem for that.
    In the reference below however it has to look the same (1) followed by a tab. I looked around in the footnote options but didn’t find a way to change the look the way I want.

  • July 3, 2013 at 11:13 pm #34170
    Gert Verrept

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    Sorry forget an important thing: the reference (1) is preceded by a space. This space is added in the footnote reference (show prefix – suffix). In the note below, the space is repeated. It’s that space which has to disappear. If I change the prefix the reference sticks to the word and that’s “not done”.

  • July 4, 2013 at 1:57 am #34173
    Theunis De Jong

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    The only choice of applying prefixes and suffixes is to either one, or both, reference and note number. Nothing in there to specify one format for one and another for the other.

    An ugly way could be to mess around with the Note paragraph style and try to get rid of the leading space. However, a quick try shows that this is a regular space — it grows and shrinks with the others on the same line. You could make it a non-breaking fixed width space …

    (After some fruitless tinkering) Best is not to rely on ID’s automated systems, then. Set the right prefix and suffix for *one* of the two, and add it for the other as regular text.
    If you use Prefix/Suffix for the Footnote References and your footnote text always has the same style, you can easily use Find/Change to add the parentheses around the number:

    * add parentheses around the footnote marker
    * copy
    * in Find/Change, search for ^F in your footnote text style
    * replace with ^C

  • July 4, 2013 at 3:59 am #34177
    Gert Verrept

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    As you already pointed out several times footnotes and Indesign isn’t working as it should be. It improves, but very slowly.
    I’ll use the copy solution, as best effort.
    thnks

  • November 2, 2017 at 1:16 pm #99377
    Diana Backer

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    We’re looking to change the order of how footnote numbering styles appear in the InDesign document (specifically the type of glyphs used).

    Our client uses a specific AMA order that varies from the numbering style preset in InDesign.

    I was hoping to achieve this similarily to how I format numbered lists but there’s no option for custom lists in the dialog box.

    Here is the order we’d like to achieve:
    AMA Footnote Symbols (in order of use)
    *
    †
    ‡
    §
    ¶
    # (we need to add this pound sign into the footnote list)
    **
    ††
    ‡‡
    § §
    ¶ ¶
    ##

    • November 2, 2017 at 2:06 pm #99378
      Dwayne Harris

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      So far as I know, it can’t be done automatically, and you can’t change InDesign’s numbering system.

      Are the footnotes renumbering at every page, or at every chapter?

      If per page, then hopefully you won’t have enough footnotes to number as high as the # you want.

      The only way to trick InDesign is to type the asterisk after the InDesign callout, and make the original callout white. Then back the # back over it. Then repeate in the footnote itself. Of course, this could turn into a nightmare if there are more footnotes after the # on that page. Of if during the next pass there is a lot of reflow and foonotes move to other pages.

      I don’t believe there are any plug-ins that will do what you want.

  • November 2, 2017 at 2:49 pm #99379
    Lindsey Martin

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    Have a look at Footwork from Id-Extras.com. Not cheap.

    • November 2, 2017 at 3:03 pm #99380
      Dwayne Harris

      Member

      Wow–that looks pretty good, Lindsey. But you’re right–the price is a bit steep.

  • November 3, 2017 at 6:55 am #99384
    Diana Backer

    Member

    Thank you, Dwayne and Lindsey!
    Both great solutions that I will be looking into.

    • November 3, 2017 at 3:11 pm #99394
      Dwayne Harris

      Member

      Good luck, Diana.

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