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Problem with headings spanning columns and footnotes

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July 20, 2023
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Hi there, I created a 2 column layout. The heading is set to span all columns. The text contains some footnotes before the heading and some after it.

The problem is that some of the footnotes appear above the heading instead of at the bottom of the page (see jpg). Is this on purpose or is it a bug? When I allow footnotes also to span columns, they gather nicely all together at the bottom of the page.

But I need them all to sit at the bottom without spanning columns. Is there any way to solve the problem?

Thanks,

Petra

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Correct answer Bevi Chagnon - PubCom.com

Hi Frans, did you happen to officially log this in the prerelease bug base?

--Bevi

No, because I think it is 'by design' or a 'design limitation' and not a bug to be honest...

I agree, it's lousy design.

But the engineering team still needs a formal bug to have it considered and authorized by the Adobe "powers". The engineners do not control what they work on.

If needed, you can grab any of my screen captures to augment yours in the bug report.

And post the bug numeber in the main prerelease discussion so we can chime in and confirm the problem.

Frans v.d. Geest

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Frans v.d. Geest

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Thank Bevi Chagnon for testing and confirming this!

Bevi Chagnon - PubCom.com

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Hi Frans, did you happen to officially log this in the prerelease bug base?

--Bevi

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Frans v.d. Geest

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I've also mentioned this now in the pre-release forum, so maybe we will get some more insight on this.

mikado99Author

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That's great, thank you! It would be nice to know if there will be any more to know.

I don't believe that I'm the very first person running into that, but it does not seem to be a common problem. At least there isn't much to find online. But I found that: https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601180-adobe-indesign-bugs/suggestions/39799390-footnotes-appear-directly-under-para-unless-span

It is from 2020...

Frans v.d. Geest

Community Expert

It is ugly, as this seems to be 'by design' indeed with no work around except the 'old' way of a separate threaded text frame.

I guss not a bug but a poor programming choice...

Robert at ID-Tasker

Legend

Simple checkbox somewhere - probably in the ParaStyle definition, next to the spanning option would be best - to decide if paragraph should act as a section break or not.

Robert at ID-Tasker

Legend

It's the same TextFrame, right?

Then it looks like InDesign is treating this heading as a "section break"...

mikado99Author

Participating Frequently

Yes, it's one single textframe. It really seems like InDesign treats span columns elements as a section break.

But in this case it makes no sense at all setting footnotes above a heading on the middle of a page.

I just learned that you can insert indeed a Section Marker in Indesign. But this is nothing I used here.

Im Working with ID 2021 but the same happens in ID 2023.

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