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• • July 15, 2019 at 11:26 am #117638
    Alfred Boland

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    I am trying to have a single column lay-out have double column footnotes. I cannot imagine that this is very hard but the place where I suppose I should do the setting (Document Footnote Options > Layout) does not give me a clue. Anyone?
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  • July 15, 2019 at 1:22 pm #117639
    Dieter Stockert

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    You can’t do this with footnotes. But you can use endnotes where you can put the notes into separate text frames (in this case two chained text frames side by side). It may cost you some time to adjust the frames because InDeign will not do that automatically.

  • July 16, 2019 at 12:56 am #117641
    Alfred Boland

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    Thanks for answering. I’m still puzzled why such a seemingly simple feature is not implemented.

  • July 16, 2019 at 10:38 am #117647
    Theunis De Jong

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    Out of the box, InDesign already can do a fair lot, and some of the lacking features – simple or otherwise – can be implemented with basic workarounds – occasionally with the help of a script. However, placement, divison, and other lay-out of InDesign’s native footnotes are not that easy mimicked and the only way around that is a custom replacement of the entire footnote system. The Footnote features have not seen any change at all since their first implemention: CS2. I dare not look up the exact date of its release.

    If you believe this would be a useful addition (and I tend to agree; why not?), suggest it at the Feature Request forum: https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601021-adobe-indesign-feature-requests

    Make sure to browse related existing features, so if there is one that covers your idea and has many upvotes, you could vote for that instead of adding another new 1-vote only suggestion. There are too many of these already.

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