convert text to footnote

Hi,

Just to show the way:

var 
    myDoc = app.activeDocument,
    mStory = myDoc.textFrames.item("story").parentStory,
    mEndNotes = myDoc.textFrames.add( {name:"EndNotes"} ),
    k, len, cIP, currPara, currFoot, mMarkers;
app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null;
//---------------------------------------------
// edit doc.footnoteOption here
with (myDoc.footnoteOptions) 
    {
    showPrefixSuffix = FootnotePrefixSuffix.PREFIX_SUFFIX_BOTH;
    prefix = "[";
    suffix = "]";
    separatorText = "\t";
    markerPositioning = FootnoteMarkerPositioning.NORMAL_MARKER;
    }
//------------------------------------------------------------
// move endnotes to a separate textFrame
for (k=mStory.paragraphs.length - 1; k >=0; k--) 
    {
    if (mStory.paragraphs.contents.search(/^\[\d+\]/) == 0) 
        {
        currPara = mStory.paragraphs.move(LocationOptions.AT_BEGINNING, mEndNotes.parentStory);
        currPara.words[0].remove();
        }
    }
//--------------------------------------
// create footnote markers
app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = "\\[\\d+\\]";
mMarkers = mStory.findGrep();
len = mMarkers.length;
while (len-->0) {
    cIP = mMarkers[len].insertionPoints[0].index;
    mMarkers[len].remove();
    mStory.footnotes.add( LocationOptions.AFTER, mStory.insertionPoints[cIP] );
    }
//-------------------------------------------------------
// fill footnote contents with proper text
for (k=0; k < mStory.footnotes.length; k++) {
    currFoot = mStory.footnotes;
    mEndNotes.paragraphs[0].texts[0].move(LocationOptions.AT_END, currFoot.texts[0]);
    if (mStory.footnotes.characters[-1].contents == "\r") mStory.footnotes.characters[-1].remove();
    }
mEndNotes.remove();

Assumings:

• both text and endnotes are in the same story
• one of this story's textContainer is named "story"
• each endnote is a separate (one) paragraph
• initially there is a white space after endnote's number

Jarek