Is there a way to have continuous footnotes on a 250 page report without linking pages.

[jennyo89533863]

Can you tell me if there is a way to continuously have numbered footnotes without linking pages. I have several chapters in a 250 page report. The report has 50 or more footnotes and requires to be numbered

consecutively.

[Randy Hagan]

That's the advantage of the workflow I offered above.

Since you're rethreading your additional text through the exact frames that were used before to hold your additional, discrete article, your updated layout will quickly match your previous one. Nothing's perfect, and it's worth it to proof all your pages to make sure you don't get any bad type breaks between the text frames, but it's very quick and efficient.

It took me about an hour to type out the process above. But after you do it a couple of times, I'd be surprised if it took you 5 minutes a shot to copy/remove a discrete article from your document and addit to the end of a previous one to extend your primary text thread.

This is a common issue, and a common fix, for translating print documentation into reflowable epubs. So you might want to keep this in your bag of tricks to serve many tasks.

Hope this helps,

Randy

[James Gifford—NitroPress]

If objects are anchored to the relevant text, it should not matter whether it's one story or ten. But if each story is a collection of loose pieces... yeah, I don't see any easy solution. Set the numbering manually for each story and you should get to a point where it doesn't need further adjustment.

[FRIdNGE]

Let's say there are really many chapters documents in the book!  =D

(^/)

[Randy Hagan]

Alas, no. It's a function of a single text thread, not a matter of working with single or multiple InDesign documents.

And footnotes isn't the only thing affected by text threading. If you're creating reflowable ebooks, sequencing and positioning articles/threads is critically important to the quality you'll get in the end product.

Randy

[James Gifford—NitroPress]

Yes, especially for EPUB/Kindle, "There can be only one."

Although you can use anchored text elements to fake it a bit. Doesn't solve the numbering problem, though.

[ninopero-dw]

The following approach adds a prefix number before each footnote number, which works across Stories and Book files--not exactly pure sequential like JennyO needed, but probably easier than the other tips in this thread.

1) edit the Footnotes Paragraph Style: under Bullets & Numbering select "Create New" under the List menu and name it Footnotes, then choose Numbers for List Type and Numbering Style format;

2) select "Chapter Number" using the flyout menu triangle beside the "Number:" field-- or type it manually including a hypen or period as a separator, so the final Number field would be ^H- or ^H.  , (becoming such as 1-5 or 3.9, for example). 

When using in a Book, choose Update All Numbering from the flyout menu to ensure the numbers reflect their respective sequence.