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Inspiring
June 20, 2020
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How to obtain TWO styles of footnotes?

  • June 20, 2020
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The only footnote choice provided by ID involved a line, strongly indented:

 

In a different section, the footnote's line remains but flushed right... very indented and can't be modified with a new paragraph style because the line is a blocked item. 

 

 

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Bevi Chagnon - PubCom.com
Legend
June 20, 2020

First, the overall appearance of footnotes is controlled in 2 ways:

  1. The document's footnotes options, and
  2. The paragraph style used to format the footnotes.

 

To control the line, its length, indents, etc. is under Type / Document Footnote Options. You'll find more controls there to help you under both tabs, Numbering and Formatting, and Layout.

 

In your screen capture, you show a wide 1-column layout, and then a 2-column layout. You might want to handle the 2 appearances this way:

  • Don't have any left indent set in the overall footnote options.
  • Create two or more footnote paragraph styles to give the different indents and appearances.
  • You can always manually apply one or the other paragraph styles to a footnote, if the default one doesn't fit your layout on a particular page.

 

 

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Inspiring
June 25, 2020

Hi,

 

the line in the two-columns example has no control for the user.

Only specifications and this strange behaviour ragging right.

That's is the point.