Using QRs as footnotes, or how to create horizontal footnotes

Question

I need to create a layout in which there's a row of QR "footnotes". So far I'm doing this by hand, which is far from ideal because every time the authors make a change e.g. adding a new "QR footnote", I need to update all the numbers by hand. I would like it to look like this, spanning all columns on a page and reseting per spread.

this how it looks like using actual footnotes.

Do you have a suggestion? Maybe creating a text variable?

James Gifford—NitroPress · Accepted Answer

No good answer for that one except to use placeholders and then number at the end.

Every solution that comes to mind to do 'horizontal footnotes' gets unbelievably messy. Possibly something with columns and most body text spanning them, but placing footnotes in the columns. Possibly a separate "footer" text flow. Possibly autonumbering the "footnote" paragraph style and then manually putting those number in the text references.

That it's QR codes just adds to the fun, since you don't have much text control.

Manual placement for these, in one way or another, is all that seems like a likely solution.

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James Gifford—NitroPress · Answer

I'm sure there's a script, or script possibility.

However, it may be easiest to simply keep it a manual process rather than try to squeeze through the tunnel of ID's footnote features. I do 'manual footnoting' for other reasons and ends, and it's not that hard to manage with a few well-defined styles.

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