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• • February 10, 2022 at 10:28 pm #14357862
    Brad Grigor

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    I am laying out a text book that contains several hundred footnotes, some of which are quite long. On some pages, as many as 3 or 4 lengthy footnotes can be referenced. InDesign (I’m using 2022) is adamant that a footnote must start on the same page it is referenced. If this cannot be achieved, all sorts of nasty things happen, and in the worst case, InDesign just gives up and no further text is displayed beyond where the footnote congestion occurred. InDesign doesn’t have a graceful fallback in the event of extreme footnote congestion.

    Has anyone found a way around this issue (besides converting all the footnotes to endnotes)? Is there a way to get InDesign to relax its rule that footnotes absolutely must start on the referencing page?

  • February 11, 2022 at 2:02 am #14357868
    Steve Davis

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    I have also encountered this issue and it’s annoying.
    The only way that I personally have found to sort it out is to create endnotes for the “offending” content and choose to place the endnote in the loaded cursor, then embed the text box into the main textflow… clunky I know and not at all perfect… but has worked.

  • February 11, 2022 at 6:25 am #14357872
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    My sense is that InDesign’s footnotes feature is a good start, but people who need very heavy-duty footnotes end up managing a lot of their notes with automation (scripts) and a lot of manual work. For example, see Peter Kahrel’s scripts here: https://creativepro.com/files/kahrel/indesign/footnotes.html

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