What all this ends up increasing is piracy. Now, before readers flame me, be aware I have a FileMaker database of about 1200 software licenses I have purchased and a folder (paper) of a bunch of font purchases, so it’s not like I wear a pirate’s eye cover, or whatever that thing is called. But I can see that if one has been preparing a certain document for years and its common body typeface is going away or otherwise changing to a different foundry with different metrics, it’s a lot easier and cheaper to just send the original OTF (or whatever) files to the customer.

If a foundry would just, say, add $2 to a price that says if the license moves to another company, it’s still available . . . what’s so bad in that? Or just price it that way from the beginning?

I don’t know about the crash, but one way that might help retain your preferences is to get them set up as you like, then quit — if the quit doesn’t crash, they would (probably) stick. And of course, if you change one mid-session, close your files and quit again.

And for those ID people deep into the inner workings: Is there a preference file one could save elsewhere, then copy back if needed? The list of recent documents might return to what’s in that file — if that file contains the list — but at least the preferences would be there.

Just shooting from the hip: Maybe set it up as an index?

Rich, if you look at the dialog logically, it works fine.

I assigned a style Footnote (0 before & after to the paragraph, 10 on 12) to the footnote itself and a character style FootnoteNumber (superscript, leading blank), and applied it to the number. I use Footnote Options > Layout and adjust the space before or after, and then I can nudge the FootnoteNumber baseline shift to whatever I want, and both — meaning the space between the footnotes and the position of the footnote number relative to the footnote text — and both stick just as I want. I can even nudge the number’s baseline so far up (or down) it runs in to the footnote above (or below it) and regardless of what I set, the positions of both are whatever I want. Same with using Subscript to the number.

I bought a Bluetooth keyboard with numeric keys and a riser for the MacBook Pro. And even beyond the numerics, I like my Mac being up higher anyway, and the keyboard connects to three devices, so I can switch between Mac, iPhone, and iPad.

This has been around for a long time. I see these little boxes as the first character in a Note or the first character of line of type in the Story Editor. They don’t cause a problem other than readability.

Without delving into minutia, there are 72 points to an inch or 2.84 points per millimeter, so 3 mm would be 8.5 points and 5 mm would be 14.2. Pixels vary among targets and (in my humble opinion) are not reliable.