Another thread about footnote numbering in FM

Question

Hello,

I have a tricky problem, that I would need some help to solve.

I have a structured document, that is structured like this:

<rootElement>
<child><content/>
<child><content/>
<child><content/>
<child><content/>
</rootElement>

Each child element is an article and needs to fulfill 2 things:

1. have its own continual footnote numbering regardless of page or other child elements.

2. must allow for special cases to only have a star* instead of numerical numbering.

What I have tried to solve (1):

- Use RWR to split up all child elements into seperate documents, setup numbering and then reference them in a single document again while retaining formats, but FM updates the footnote numbering anyway.

For (2) I can only imagine solutions that would require some intense workaround to insert supertext instead of actual footnotes to make it look like a footnote but have more control over what is displayed (either number or *)

This might somewhat also work for (1) but maybe someone has a better idea of how to solve this.

Ideal scenario would be to have a footnote element where I can set attributes for the exact properties I want on each individual footnote.

Does anyone have suggestions or ideas on how to solve this?

4XS Martin · Accepted Answer

Hello,

thank you very much for your thoughts. This got solved in the way I initially have thought.

First we set an empty custom sign(just leave it blank) in the footnote numbering setting. This removes all footnote markers in the text.

After that we build a container around the footnote marker with number and sign as attribute and then just a paragraph that is using the attributes as a suffix.

This now looks like a normal footnote but it isnt.

This may be a little hard to understand in text, so here is an example

Bob_Niland · Answer

Are the footnotes same-page, or end-notes?

If end-notes, those usually are Xrefs (don't involve FM footnote data structures), and can implement all sorts of schemes.

Same-page can also be done by Xref, rather than FM footnotes, by using Anchored Frame at Bottom of Column.

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