I've spent several hours fixing cross-reference problems in a few of my own documents but also in documents of some other people.

Another problem is that when something goes wrong with cross-references, the document is difficult to repair. One issue is that cross-references cannot practically be used in books because updating them is terribly slow. Recently, however, like some other people, I've been bitten by some issues to do with cross-references. The method outlined by Peter Gold is simple and elegant, but labour-intensive if you want to convert all footnotes in a document or when you've placed in InDesign an MS Word document that contains a lot of endnotes which you want to convert to dynamic endnotes. Then at the location of the note reference, create a cross-reference to the endnote. The method is simple: create a paragraph style for the endnotes and enable numbering in it create a character style that sets the format for the note references and add a cross-reference format that defines just a paragraph's number. Several scripts described here implement a method outlined by Peter Gold (in InDesign's user-to-user forum) and described in detail by Bob Bringhurst (see his blog see also ).

This arsenal can be expanded by some scripts. Convert footnotes to endnotes, column notes, or margin notesīefore CC2018, InDesign did just one type of note: footnotes (not counting what is called 'note' in InDesign, i.e.

Several scripts here to manage footnotes: convert footnotes to (dynamic) endnotes or margin notes convert footnotes to column-spanning footnotes set footnotes in columns inline notes and managing the space between main text and ID's footnotes.Īfter many years of silence, Adobe added functionality to notes: CC2017 introduced column-spanning footnotes and per-page overrides for some footnote properties CC2018 introduced endnotes, both in the main text and in tables and from CC2019 we can finally add footnotes in tables.

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