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Hi,
Imho, the true question could be: What is the footnote numbering?
Real footnotes into unthreaded text frames simple to update! …
… if, e.g., we change the first number from 5 to 8!
(^/) Just for fun!
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Vlad,
Here, It's a funny game because the text frames are unthreaded!
That's why each first "true" footnote [Automatic footnote call and footnote] begins to "1"!
So, we need to "think different" and play in another way!
What I'm going to explain can be done easily by the op. Manually!
… But a script will do it in 1 click!
The deal is to have a continuous numbering of the footnotes even if the text frames aren't threaded!
[To do it, the script will need a chronological order of the frames! Not the op!]
That's the scenario I've imagined for a script!
About the Footnote call:
The op searches each footnote call and inserts after* it a small anchor text box [placed as "superscript" (para style, auto-resizing text frame) –– para style and object style to be defined by the user (or the script)]. (* I use a script to do it because I prefer it "after" but this could be played "before"!)
The insertion of this anchored text frame triggers a grep style that will automatically "make invisible" the footnote call!
Easy to plan with a simple grep F/R [search: .(?=~F) Replace by: $0~C]
With that code, the anchoring will be "before"!
About the Footnote:
A similar way: a grep style will be triggered by the insertion of the cross-reference [including into its format a "non-joiner"!] to our "false" footnote call to make invisible the real footnote numbering!
About the Cross-reference:
About the Footnote call numbering:
How does it work?
The op will have to change the numbers manually! … But a script does it simply counting the footnotes when it'll create the text frames and insert the numbering into them! Just inserting in the text frame the incrementation defined by the number of footnotes: Fn 1 (= First Fn = 0) => 1, Fn 2 (= second Fn = 1) => 2, …
When done, we'll have this [after generation, I've chosen to begin the numbering to "5", for test]:
… if, as I said in post@3 two weeks ago without interesting somebody, if you want to update the numbering, changing the first footnote number from "5" to "8", as:
… you'll do it simply with this code:
/*
Script written by Michel Allio [2017/01/12]
see: https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2261885
*/
app.doScript("main()", ScriptLanguage.javascript, undefined, UndoModes.ENTIRE_SCRIPT, "Update Footnotes! …");
function main()
{
var myDoc = app.activeDocument,
myParaStyle = "Num",
myValue = +3;
app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null;
app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = "\\d+$";
app.findGrepPreferences.appliedParagraphStyle = myParaStyle;
myDoc.findGrep();
myFound = myDoc.findGrep();
var F = myFound.length;
for ( var f = 0 ; f < F ; f++) myFound
.contents = String(Number(myFound .contents) + myValue); myDoc.updateCrossReferences();
app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null;
}
Edit the script with ESTK, just change "myValue" number [line 14 ; actually: "+3"] and launch the script!
For fun, you could play negative number!
The 2 first parts of the script [text frames creation + cross-references creation] has been written in another contexts. To be adapted if time … and less annoyed!
Script 1 (adaptation) written 15/01/2017: How can I make a new text frame for selected text?
Script 2 written 07/08/2016: Cross-reference paragraph number! …
(^/)
Just for fun! Dropbox - Test_ID-Files.zip
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