Footnote number to sit independently from actual footnote in footer

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January 5, 2023
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Currently (AFAIK) InDesign, you can create a determined space between the footnote number and the footnote itself (be it a tab space, em space etc). But this only applies to the first line, and the rest of the text will commence at the margin.

Is there a way therefore to have the footnote number set off from the whole text block? I've tried using an indent but this gets messy when it gets to two-digit numbers and three digit numbers.

Apologies for the poor description in the header but I'm hoping someone can help

How to

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Peter Spier

Community Expert

Create a paragraph style for the footnotes.

Set a left indent sufficient to hold your largest footnote number and some space, a negative first line indent to match, and a tab stop at the left indent point.

In the footnote options set the separator to Tab.

James Gifford—NitroPress

Legend

This. And yes, you do have to structure the formatting to allow space for as many footnote digits as you have. This can create a bit of a messy look for the single-digit ones if you're allowing for three. There's no good solution; for reasons only known to the deep code wizards, ID does not allow you to start note numbering with a tab, which would allow a right-justified tab on the number faced with the left tab/indent on the text, and thus consistent number-to-text spacing regardless of the number of digits.

Robert at ID-Tasker

Legend

What have you set up in the ParaStyle applied to the footnotes?

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