Footnotes from captions

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February 29, 2020
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I'm working on this book that has a bunch of footnotes. But now I want to add one, but in a caption. Like, I added this image, and then a little text box below it, and in that text box I want to have the little superscripted "1", but it's adding the footnote inside that text box. Which I guess makes sense, except I want the footnote to be down at the bottom of the page with all the other footnotes. Is there a way to do that?

How to

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Laubender

Community Expert

Hi detritus_books,

hm…

Instead of using [Paper] I would use fill color [None].

One question: How do you control the numbering of footnotes that comes after the first "footnote" in your caption?

( I thought you need a "1" for the first and perhaps only footnote in a caption. )

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

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detritus booksAuthor

Inspiring

Why would you do NONE instead of PAPER?

The numbering of the footnotes is automatic. I just let this one be whatever number was next up.

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detritus booksAuthor

Inspiring

I'm not using endnotes. However, I did figure out a different workaround. I just placed the footnote marker in the regular body text on that page, and changed the color of the footnote marker to white, and then added a dummy footnote marker to the image caption.

L

Laubender

Community Expert

Hi detritus_books,

are you using endnotes as well? If not you could use endnotes for this with Scope: Story in the endnotes options.

Also use the option to load the endnotes text to the cursor ( placegun ).

Important: This is a hack where you need to move the endnotes text frame to the bottom of your main text frame with text wrap set. And you have to move that text frame every time your image with the caption will move to a different page.

From my German InDesign 2020: