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• • November 23, 2013 at 1:21 pm #66257
    Anonymous

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    I’m importing a word document into indesign, that needs to be typeset according to a specific layout…need the top half of the page to have hebrew in a column on the right, then place its equivalent english translation in the left column alongside it so that both languages are vertically side by side…the 2nd half of the page will have commentary text spread all the way spanning across the page. What’s the best way to do this? Tried 2 text boxes beside each other at the top and, a third text box below…problem is with footnotes that i want to have appear right at the bottom of the page, but they end up in the text box in which they’re referenced at the top. Other then manually re-doing each footnote, how can i get the footnotes down below?

  • November 24, 2013 at 2:53 pm #66266
    Dwayne Harris

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    That is a dilemma. That’s the way InDesign works. It puts the footnote in the text box it is called out in. But there is a work around. I’m not sure how your Word file is set-up. Hopefully the Hebrew text immediately follows the regular text, and that the commentary follows the Hebrew.

    Anyway–

    1) You will have to use text frames on your master pages. I normally don’t use that feature, but it will be needed in this case. Have text frames on your master pages and then go to text frame options and select two-column, and plug in whatever your gutter size will be.

    2) Set up a paragraph style for the first line/paragraphs of Hebrew so that it starts “next column.”

    3) For your commentary text, set up your paragraphs to “span 2 columns.” If you have any heads in the commentary, those will also need the span 2 columns in those paragraph styles as well. Note: You can also add space above in those paragraph styles.

    Basically, the entire job will be two-column, but not as two separate text boxes (and having to create a single one for the commentary. Instead, everything will be two-column, except where you specify that it is one column (which spans both columns).

    I hope this made sense.

    Dwayne

    EDIT: Any word breaks that are wrong in my post are not typos. It seems that the site is breaking by line length. For example, I definitely have “Word” as one word, but when I see my post it is W at the end of the line, and “ord” starts the second.

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