Find and replace a footnote inside punctuation

[dans33352417]

Hello,

Is there any way of finding and replacing footnotes inside punctuation with the same number footnote outside the punctuation? I don't mind doing separate find and replaces for all conceivable types of punctuation (full stops, commas, exclamation and question marks) but if I have to do it all manually it's going to take days as there are thousands of footnotes and almost all of them have been placed inside punctuation, i.e. footnote then full stop rather than the footnote after the full stop. I know there is a GREP to find the footnotes but I can't find a way of getting it to replace the footnote with the same footnote, or of leaving the footnote and moving the punctuation. Thanks in advance!

[vladan saveljic · Accepted solution]

try this grep

find:

(~F)([[:punct:]])

change to

$2$1

[dans33352417]

Thanks.

Someone else suggested:

(~F)([.,?!~e])

As ([[:punct:]]) includes all punctuation signs including emdashes and parentheses which you might not want replacing.

Anyway, I thought I'd put this up as it's useful to have both options for anyone else that has the same problem.

Thanks again!

[libramente]

Hello Vladan (and hello all!),

I have the reverse problem, and... I set the grep ([.,])(~ F) (but also your ([[:punct:]])(~F) ), and this correctly finds the expressions. But with $2$1 (or in no other way) it is impossible to move the note marker, which now appears into text as <?>. What am I doing wrong? (win10, indd 15.1.1). I'm really envying the result of your animation... Thanks a lot!

[vladan saveljic]

You don't do anything wrong
Unfortunately it is a malicious bug that has practically always been present in indesign.
You should report it here
https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601180-adobe-indesign-bugs

we hope adobe engineers will soon find the solution to this problem.

In addition to what I have written before, you can work around this problem with script.

With script everything works fine.

[christianbrugeron]

Hello

Witth a script (find/replacce grep) I have the <?> bug. How do you solve it?

Thanks

Christian

[vladan saveljic]

take a look the Peter Kahrel's answer here.

https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign/find-and-swap-position-of-period-footnote/m-p/11267620?page=...