Dear friends,
Many thanks for this valuable resource. I hope someone can help me with this problem.
I’m typesetting an academic book using CS4. The client has presented me with some quite specific design requirements, and I’m reluctant to argue with them.
The chapters all include very extensive footnotes, and InDesign is not handling them well. Largish blank spaces between text and footnotes go with the territory with this sort of publication: often text has to go on a following page because it’s attached to a very long footnote. In many cases in this project, however, InDesign is pushing text onto the next page, even when there’s no obvious reason, and leaving huge spaces on the page. At one point, it was leaving an entire page blank – and yes, I did check that the text box on that page was threaded to the ones before and after.
Is there a way of forcing text back onto a preceding page when it seems clear that there is room for it?
PS: I should add that I've allowed footnotes to split over 2 pages – apparently doesn't help.
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