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October 2, 2017
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Two types of footnotes

  • October 2, 2017
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Good Morning.

I need help with footnotes.

I have a job that requires the use of two types of notes. One type corresponds to traditional footnotes and a second type where other references are placed but independent of the first type.

Is there any way to create a second continuous note system as the first type?

I put a picture to illustrate what I want.

Thank you

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    Correct answer Barb Binder

    The only way I can see to accomplish this is tediously, via cross-references. InDesign currently only supports one type of footnote in document.

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    Obi-wan Kenobi
    Obi-wan Kenobi
    Brainiac
    October 20, 2017

    Hi,

    The screenshot is absolutely not clear for me! …

    Could you post a best readable one with 2 pages? Thanks!

    (^:)

    Barb Binder
    Barb BinderCorrect answer
    Adobe Expert
    October 2, 2017

    The only way I can see to accomplish this is tediously, via cross-references. InDesign currently only supports one type of footnote in document.

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    LiturgiaAuthor
    New Participant
    October 19, 2017

    will the new version of InDesign CC 2018 have the tool I'm looking to solve the problem of a second set of notes on the same page?

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    Peter Kahrel
    Adobe Expert
    October 20, 2017

    Exactly!

    https://forums.adobe.com/people/Peter+Kahrel  wrote

    So using endnotes or cross-referenced auto-numbered paragraphs comes down to the same thing.

    P.

    Not really. Endnote as a feature overcomes many shortcomings of using cross-references as endnotes: few of them being... maintaining correct chronological order of endnotes, two-way navigation, scope change ability, and functions provided by "Document endnote options"

    -Aman


    Well, that's not entirely true or not entirely applicable:

    > maintaining correct chronological order of endnotes

    cross-references give you that, don't they?

    > two-way navigation

    cross-references give you that, too (not in a PDF, but we're not talking PDF). In the Cross-references panel you can jump from source to destination. Or is that not what you mean?

    > scope change ability

    Scope aplies to footnotes in only one way: the foot of the page.

    > and functions provided by "Document endnote options"

    Not sure what you mean by this.

    The main advantage of using endnotes for footnotes over cross-referenced numbered paragraphs is that you don't use InDesign's cross-references, which speeds up things in book jobs.

    Anyway, using endnotes for this purpose makes perfect sense -- thanks for the suggestion.

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