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Bonjour @anniea72348476
Pour être franc, je n'utilise quasiment jamais les notes de fin (les notes de bas de page, oui). Mais sur mon Mac, j'ai 4 versions installées : 2022, 2023, 2024 et 2025. Les options de notes de fin sont absolument identiques pour chaque version. Et pour régler ton problème, puisqu'a priori, chaque chapitre est constitué d'un article, pourquoi ne choisis-tu pas « redémarrer à chaque article »?
En revanche, l'option « recommencer la numérotation à chaque section » existe pour les notes de bas de page.
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Bonjour,
J'ai un problème similaire avec un recueil bilingue de poésies (hindi page paire - traduction française en face-à-face, page impaire).
Pour "couler" le face à face, je suis obligé de chaîner les pages paires aux pages paires et impaires aux pages impaires (certains poèmes font plus d'une page).
Du coup mes notes de fin (justifiées de mon point de vue, pour éviter un déséquilibre ente l'original et sa traduction) sont mal numérotées : la première note relative au texte français suit la dernière note relative au hindi, et donc pas la numérotation des pages.
Voir copie d'écran ci-dessous avec, sur la page de gauche la note 5 et sur la page de droite, 67, c'est à dire la dernière note hindi (66) + 1. Pour plus de clarté, j'ai aussi rendu visibles le chaînage entre blocs.
Et je n'ai pas du tout envie de couper les liens entre blocs, le livre n'étant pas finalisé !!!
Si quelqu'un a une solution, je suis preneur !!!
Merci d'avance...
Du coup mes notes de fin (justifiées de mon point de vue, pour éviter un déséquilibre ente l'original et sa traduction) sont mal numérotées : la première note relative au texte français suit la dernière note relative au hindi, et donc pas la numérotation des pages.
Va dans les options de notes de fin et choisis « redémarrer à chaque article »
For some reason I was looking at FOOTnotes not ENDnotes - when I was replying from my phone and checking online help...
In English version - it's clear as day - "Restart Every STORY" - for ENDnotes:
Thank you for your comments to all of you (I shift to English, as probably more people will understand me), but your proposals do not help.
Changing the numbering of notes (endnotes and footnotes have the same behaviour) from “continuous” to “start with each article” does not solve this problem (I tried it before posting my initial request): the notes start at 1 at the fist odd page, instead being the last even note + 1.
In my example (see screenshot), odd (French page 15) note is now 1 (before it was 67), instead of 6 (facing even page + 1).
The problem comes from the fact that InDesign (and, frankly speaking, I do not understand why) works prioritarily with text blocks rather than pages for notes (once again footnotes and endnotes are treated similarily). It considers that text blocks should be threaded page after page, whereas you can “of course” thread your blocks on non-contiguous pages. It considers text blocks threaded together as one “article”, instead of giving priority to pages.
I reported this bug to Adobe’s bug reports age, but who knows when (and if) they will consider it…
Regards,
Pascal Garin
For strange reasons, the following post is no longer on this thread. I thus try again.
To clarify my problem, this is what I do (and please apologize: I don’t consider I am an InDesign top expert). I already used successfully this method on other books, but they had notes only on French translation, so I did not encounter any problem. My problem comes from the fact that now, I have notes on both sides (foreign language AND French).
The goal is to prepare a bilingual book, with face-to-face texts (in general poetry, but it can be anything else):
- The even pages contain the original text in English, Hindi, etc.
- The odd pages contain the French translation.
- I want that at top of pages, both texts properly face together.
First, I create, from the (in general very bad) manuscripts I receive, three Word documents. They are at A4 format, as I don’t know in advance the size of the book, so I don’t know where page breaks will occur.
- The first one contains all first pages (semi-title page, title page, copyrights page, introductory chapters): these pages will be threaded continuously at the beginning of the book.
- The second one contains the text in its original language (English, Hindi…): they will appear on even pages. In the case of poems, there are separated by section breaks (Word, correctly imported in InDesign)
- The third one contains the French translation: it will appear on odd pages (section breaks between poems).
I have prepared an InDesign template, with the first pages threaded continuously, then even pages threaded together, and odd pages threaded together (see screenshot).
I import the three Word documents at their appropriate places. If I forget the first pages, which don’t pose any problem, I have at this moment an InDesign document with the texts at their correct position. If a poem AND its translation fit in one page, nothing to do. Otherwise, I just add near the bottom of even and odd pages paragraph breaks, at the bottom right, a “to be continued” sign: …/… and at the next pages both texts are properly facing together.
This method considerably eases my work, as I don’t have to create pages, cut/paste the bottom of a text at the new pages on both languages, etc.
I understand that, doing so, InDesign considers that the even pages constitute an “article” or “story” (I don't know the English terminology) and numbers the notes accordingly. But THIS IS NOT WHAT I WANT!
Indeed, the reader doesn’t expect something like note 1, 2 (even page), 67 (odd page), then 3, 4 (next even page), 68 (next odd page), etc. He/she is expecting continuous numbering along the book!
I would thus warmly appreciate any other simple method from somebody having already elaborated bilingual books, as it seems that there is no way to deal with the software as it is.
Regards,
Pascal Garin
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