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Hanging indent for footnote numbers.

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April 13, 2022
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Hi

I have a book with lots of footnotes, so I will have 10+ on the same pages, and there is a problem with the alignment as you can see, how can I alignment them to be something like the second photo.

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@AK09M i see this very late but maybe in the future can benfit from this solution!

Do the following to create a hanging indent in your footnote paragraph style:

1. In the Paragraph panel, right-click on the style name and choose Edit “styleName”.
2. Click on Indents and Spacing, and set Right Indent to the leading value of the footnote (e.g. 5mm).
3. Set First Line Indent to the negative value of what you used for Right Indent. So if you set Right Indent to 5mm, set First Line Indent to -5mm.

4. Then make sure in Type > Document Footnote Options that in the Numbering and Formatting pane, the Footnote Formatting paragraph style is set to your footnote style, and leave the separator as “^t.”

You can experiment if necessary to get the look you want. Just make sure that it’s the same for both (but that First Line Indent is negative).

Note : in English Document just change the Left Indent!

see in the two pics (Example) :

Mohammad Hasanin

AK09MAuthor

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شكرًا على الرد أستاذ حسنين .

أنا أشتغل على كتب مليئة بالهوامش فممكن يكون عندي قرابة 100 صفحة فيها هوامش فوق العشرة لكل صفحة

ومحاذاة الأرقام كما ترى من 10 وفوق العدد العشري 0 محاذي للعدد الفردي 1-9 والمطلوب أن يكون العدد 1 من الرقم 10 محاذي للأعداد من 1-9

كما في الصورة:

الحل المقترح سيعمل لو كان هناك ستايل للأعداد من 1-9 وآخر للأعداد من 10 وفوق

لكن المشكلة هو ربط الاستايل بالهامش المطلوب بشكل تلقائي أو حتى بعملية بحث واستبدال، فالحل الحالي هو يدوي وليس تلقائي وصعب تطبيقه على كتب ضخمة.

شكرًا لتجاوبك مرة أخرى. 👍

TLDR:

We can do this if we're using 2 different styles one for 1-9 and the other for 10s+.

The problem is how to assign them automatically instead of doing it manually.

Inspiring

yes you can do this automatically from Find/Change or from Docuement Footnotes Options :

جعل الحاشية السفلية ذات اسطر لها محاذاة واحدة

Make Footnotes paragraphs lines aligned (Indent to here) by GREP

Find : (^~F)
Change : $1~>~i
Paragraph Style : Footnote Text

Note : I used en space just before indent to here!

Or from (Document Footnote Options)

^>^i

استعمل الحل المناسب لك

Mohammad Hasanin

AK09MAuthor

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I assume Indesign doesn't have such a thing.

I hope they add it in a future update.