> I’ve got hundreds of text boxes applied to a character style

Not sure what you mean here. How does one apply a text box to a character style? Can you explain what you’re after?

P.

That’s a basic InDesign thing. Hold the Shift key down when you place the text. Look under ‘auto flow’ (or something like that) in the InDesign help file or a book.

P.

A separate paragraph style. Include paragraph shading.

P.

They are text anchors. They overlap the following text because they themselves have no width, whereas their screen representations do. You can check them by opening the Story editor (Edit > Edit in story editor).

P.

> unless there’s a difference in a minor version but i couldnt figure out how to find this exactly

Help > Ctrl+click ‘About InDesign

> The only difference is that i got EeasyCatalog installed on 1 pc

That’ll be the one where you see that : code, right? That code indicates a text anchor, which is probably placed there by EasyCatalog. You can verify that by uninstalling EasyCatalog and see if that makes a difference in InDesign.

I second David’s comment: forget MathType, go for movemen’s MathTools. MathTools’s equations are plain text. It comes with various predefined character styles so that various parts of equations can be coloured in different ways. You can enter equations in InDesign, and you can translate MathType EPSs to MathTools equations. MathTools supports scripting. And MathTools equations export well to PDF, Epub, and HTML.

Peter

MathTools can convert MathType equations in placed Word files to its (MathTool’s) own format. Works very well.

Interesting. The below script does what you want. An alternative would be to place the sidenotes anchored frames (a variant of https://www.kahrel.plus.com/indesign/sidenotes.html). This alternative requires the set-up of some styles but is probably easier to use in the long run.

Anyway, here’s the script. Select the footnote you want to convert and run the script.

Peter

function () {
  if (app.selection.length && app.selection[0] instanceof Character && app.selection[0].contents == SpecialCharacters.FOOTNOTE_SYMBOL) {
    var sep = app.documents[0].footnoteOptions.separatorText.length;
    var story = app.selection[0].parentStory;
    var n = story.insertionPoints.itemByRange (0, app.selection[0].index).footnotes.length;
    var fnote = story.footnotes[n];
    var ix = fnote.storyOffset.index;
    var enote = fnote.storyOffset.createEndnote();
    // InDesign adds a space after the new endnote, delete it.
    if (story.characters[p+1].contents == ' ') {
      story.characters[p+1].contents = '';
    }
    fnote.characters.itemByRange (0, sep+1).contents = '';
    fnote.texts[0].move (LocationOptions.AFTER, enote.insertionPoints[-1]);
    fnote.remove();
  }
}());