Hi Justin

Thank you for getting back on this issue.

I did talk with the publishers yesterday about the digital version. The way it works with this client is that I provide the ‘Indesigned’ print version and then they adapt.

My solution is — hopefully will work, I am about to start now — to simply convert the text pasted directly from Word in Indesign into a table; after setting up the text properly and created the table style.

Thank you!

Hi Justin

Thank you for your reply :)

Answering your questions, and I hope I’ll make sense and am not too long!

I am doing the layout of a translated book. I have received the translation in word and the original document as a PDF and was asked by the publisher to follow the design of the original edition. So, it looks like this sort of sequenced listing can, somehow, be done…!

For each chapter in the book the author has created commentaries, which are placed at the end of the book as ‘notes’. For each page there are a few commentaries and it is the number of the page that has to appear before each commentary. For instance, if there are three comments on page 40, the list appears as

40. [text][/text]
40. [text][/text]
40. [text][/text]

This is the case for the whole book, which has 252 pages of text. (Page 252 has 4 entries, for instance.)
Not all the pages have commentaries but most do.

I received the translation in Word as (I have here shortened the entries so as to not lengthen this post too much)

“…
15 a emergente rede chinesa «shanzhai»: Nicholas Schmidle, …
15 as máquinas conseguem realmente «imprimir» objetos: «The Pr…
16 uma réplica de uma moto em tamanho real: Patrick Col…
18 «robôs sociais» capazes de reconhecer os gestos humanos: Sar…
18 Em 2012, uma equipa de um laboratório de robótica do Japão: Hel…
…”

and I’d like to have the list so that the numbers were on a column to the left and the text on a column to the right, indented in relation to the numbers (on the left).

If I could send a screen shot that would greatly help to visualise, but I don’t think I can do it in here?

I really hope I managed to be clear. Please let me know if anything needs further clarification.

Thank you so very much again for considering this question. I so appreciate your help.