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Script to change false endnotes into real ones

Community Beginner ,
Oct 22, 2021 Oct 22, 2021

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I have a long publication with ~200 endnotes that have all been set in Text as a number in brackets "[n]" and would like to create a script that simply

- searches for a one ore more digits in square brackets

- and replaces each one by an endnote

 

I'm fine copy-pasting each endnote by hand later but so, those endnotes can just be empty to start with. 

 

I have no experience with indesign scripts and my trials so far were unsuccessful due to lack of documentation by adobe (a ton of dead links)…

I first tried using a GREP search and replacement but there's no way to add an endnote automatically in GREP…

 

Can anyone help? 

 

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Community Expert , Oct 22, 2021 Oct 22, 2021

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Community Expert ,
Oct 22, 2021 Oct 22, 2021

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Hi @Matthias Jakubek,

Did you see the following discussion? Do the scripts mentioned there help?

https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/how-do-i-convert-manual-endnotes-to-indesign-201...

-Manan

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Nov 01, 2021 Nov 01, 2021

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Thanks Manan,

yes I did see the discussion but at first try it wasn't working for me. However I realised that the script does work once both the footnote marker AND the actual footnote are contained in the document. I did have to do some cleanup with GREP first but it eventually worked like a charm. Thanks again!

 

Best, Matt

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Oct 22, 2021 Oct 22, 2021

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Try to convert text to footnotes first, then convert footnotes to endnotes.

— Kas

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