Making a unique reference number—*—at the beginning of a doc followed by 1,2,3 no.s

[Ella31339443te5k]

I have to use a different reference number at the beginning of a document (*) for author information and then use roman numerals for the rest of the reference numbers in the text, starting at 1. So far, InDesign will only do either, or. Please help!

[Mike Witherell]

Read about defining a section of pages to be numbered in any style you wish:

https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/numbering-pages-chapters-sections.html

[Ella31339443te5k]

Thank you. The page you sent me was helpful for some other things, but not for my problem. I tried making a section starting on the first page and then another on the second page. It didn't make any difference. I've attached a sample showing what I mean by differing footnotes. The author info reference no. is denoted by * and all subsequent references in the text start at 1 and go from there. It's the * I cannot get without effecting all the other numbers. InDesign makes reference/footnote * number 1, thereby throwing off the rest of the numbering in the entire document.

[Steve Werner]

Set setup for footnotes in InDesign is found in Type > Document Footnote Options, 

Footnote numbering is set on the Numbering & Formatting tab:

The key point is that this controls numbering for the entire document. You can't use it to individually change the numbering of one footnote, different than the document settings.

You'll need to set that footnote formatting manually.

[Ella31339443te5k]

Yes. I always had to do it separately in CS6. When I try to do it manually
in the newest InDesign by pasting in the * footnote, it automatically calls
it 1 anyhow and changes all the subsequent footnotes and reference numbers.
Is there a way to make it not change the numbering?

[FRIdNGE]

Don't treat this first footnote as a … footnote!

Use an anchored auto-resized wrapped text frame with 2 para styles!

2 first lines …

… If you add other lines, it's magic!! 😉

(^/)  The Jedi

[FRIdNGE]

No need 2 para styles! one is enough!

(^/)

[Ella31339443te5k]

Perhaps I'm not sufficiently adept at using InDesign, but I am not
able to get the "non-footnote" to fit between the little automatic
rule above the footnotes and the first footnote. If these were
endnotes, it would be simple enough.

On my wish list, it would be really nice if Adobe made it possible to
start footnotes with different markers the same way I can make pages
start with different types of numbering (e.g., i, ii, iii; 1, 2, 3).
Giving authors separate markers is not unusual.