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• • August 21, 2019 at 2:27 am #1181683
    Anonymous

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    Hi,

    We are working on a book that has several footnotes on a word and the footnotes are extremely lengthy.
    InDesign doesn’t seem to know what to do with itself because the footnotes dont all fit on the page with the reference.
    We need to tell the program to put the footnotes that don’t fit on the same page as the reference onto a new blank page with out any body text and then continue the book on the following page after that.
    We would prefer not to import the footnotes separately or convert to endnotes as that will cause a whole new slew of issues.
    Right now the document takes a really long time to auto flow after any tiny change. ‘

    Hope someone can help!

    Thank you!

  • August 21, 2019 at 4:46 am #14324256
    Tim Murray

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    I have to say this: Have you considered rewriting content and footnotes? I view footnotes as “by-the-way” to give info on where content is found and who did it, or to explain something a bit. If your footnote is that long, it seems to me such content deserves to be in the body.

  • August 21, 2019 at 8:35 am #14324254
    David Goodrich

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    I agree with Tim. Among other things, when footnotes expand to take a whole page they can’t still be called “footnotes”. I’ve occasionally convinced editors to move such excess verbiage into an appendix, partly on grounds that really long notes look silly and amateurish — anything that’s really worth saying belongs in the text (maybe in a different article).

    That said, you can create a new paragraph style for footnotes that duplicates the footnote specs., insert a new page, cut out the excess text, and put it in its own, separate frame on the new page in the new paragraph style. Obviously, this interrupts the text flow, so if the text changes you may need to go back and fix things by hand.
    Good luck!
    David

  • August 21, 2019 at 11:53 am #14324252
    Dieter Stockert

    Member

    It is not a good idea to apply several footnotes to ohne word. And I think that if you put the text of the respective footnotes in a single footnotes, InDesign will be able to handle it well.

  • August 21, 2019 at 1:21 pm #14324251
    Dieter Stockert

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    »to ohne word« was typed as »to one word«, but the german auto correction changed it to the german word for »without«.

  • August 21, 2019 at 1:41 pm #14324250
    Anonymous

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    I agree with everyone but this is what we have and there isn’t much choice about it :)
    I was wondering if there was a script that would help me deal with it.
    The book is a complicated work – in the industry I work in its quite common to have very extensive footnotes we just have never had several on one word. I will try what Dieter suggested.
    Thank you!!

  • August 21, 2019 at 9:08 pm #14324249
    Dieter Stockert

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    Another good reason is: When yu apply several footnotes on one word the footnote numbers looks like one single number (123) instead of 1, 2, 3.

  • August 22, 2019 at 8:20 am #14324246
    Ariel W

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    Plugging my own merchandise here, but with Footwork you can tell it to allow footnotes on the page/s following the footnote ref in the main text if needed. You also have more control of the footnote layout on the page. And there are many other features there, including multi-column footnotes, run-on footnotes, and much more.
    Check it out here: https://www.id-extras.com/products/footwork/
    … and Keith Gilbert’s excellent review on InDesignSecrets.com is here (I think for members only): https://indesignsecrets.com/review-footwork.php

    Ariel

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