@SteveWerner: I’m not buying your feeble excuses. Are you saying that, because other companies suck, Adobe is free to do so, too? Perhaps you don’t remember what happened to the once mighty Quark, Inc. InDesign is a tool used by design professionals and the engineers involved should understand that. As such, the rules of thumb should always be these: First, do no harm; Second, be sure you understand how a feature will be used. Looking through the mess you’ve created for a project of mine that’s on a deadline, I realized that your engineers have a fundamental misunderstanding of how endnotes and footnotes are treated in a multi-chapter book. There must be a way to start the numbering anew in each chapter, but the only options you give are “document” and “story.” What is really needed are options for “document,” “story," and “SECTION.” A “section” is that which is determined in the Page Menu, and sections can be created there even when the page numbering continues throughout document. Alternatively, you could offer a way to break a continuous document into discrete stories, with the invisible # inserted at the end of each. But, so far as I know, there is no way for a user to place the invisible # sign. This situation is rather like the feeble implementation of OpenType options, which has improved over many versions, but is still inadequate, with too many “all or nothing” options for certain features. Why don’t you confer with expert users with a wide range of needs and uses? They do in other departments; I know because I have been a paid consultant for the type department. Adobe always had high standards, but lately things have slipped. It’s now reminiscent of the old days at Microsoft, “home of the 80% solution,” as Adobe engineers used to day.
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