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December 25, 2019
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Need to place endnotes at end of chapters and at end of book (Was "Footnotes and End notes issue”)

  • December 25, 2019
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Hi Everyone,

 

Happy Christmas!!!

 

Here again with a new issue. I have tried all the possibilities available. I have a book layout request over 1000 footnotes and endnotes.

 

Client requests that he needs the footnotes to be at the end of each chapter. But, the only option to do that is converting footnotes to endnotes, and place at the end of story. This makes these footnotes added as part of existing end notes. Is it really possible handle this when there is both footnotes and endnotes existing in the book.

 

Thanks in advance.

Eswari

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    Correct answer Dave Creamer of IDEAS

    Yes. He wants two sets of end notes. I am trying to do in a single document. Not id book file. 

     

    The manuscript  is a word document with footnotes and endnotes.


    1. You will have to cut-and-paste the existing endnotes to the end of the document (aka "book") in a separate text flow. This will break their link, however, and will not longer update or be hyperlinked (plus the numbers will look like this: <?>).
      1. If you DON'T need hyperlinks on the book endnotes, you job is relatively easy. If they are just sequentially numbered, you can simple edit the "book" endnote style's numbering settings and do some Find/Change cleanup.
      2. If you DO need the hyperlinks, as far as I can tell, you will have to use the cross references panel. (You might be able to find a script, but I could only find old ones to convert footnotes to book endnotes.)
    2. When that is done, make sure each chapter is a single, separate text flow and convert footnotes to endnotes for each chapter.

     

    As an aside, if the client wants option 1a, it's not that big of a problem. If they want option 1b, I would let them know that the cost (based on your time) will increase greatly.

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    Dave Creamer of IDEAS
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    Dave Creamer of IDEASCommunity Expert
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    December 25, 2019

    The client wants the footnotes to actually be treated as endnotes, but already has other endnotes. The client basically wants two separate sets of endnotes. Am I understanding that correctly?

     

    David Creamer: Community Expert (ACI and ACE 1995-2023)
    Eshu153
    Eshu153Author
    Inspiring
    December 25, 2019

    Yes, two sets. One at the end of each chapter (Footnotes) and another already existing at the end of the book.

    Dave Creamer of IDEAS
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    Dave Creamer of IDEASCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    December 25, 2019

    Just to clarify terminology, footnote are at the "foot" of every page, so your client doesn't want footnotes at all, but two sets of endnotes.

    How are you differentiating between the chapter vs. book endnotes?

    Did you place the existing endnotes from Word? 

    Are you using an ID Book file or just one long document?

    David Creamer: Community Expert (ACI and ACE 1995-2023)
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