Dear Adobe Indesin users
First of all I apologize for my non-DTP-ness. I am a wold be born again Word and OOo user.
One of the reasons I wanted to give up on Word and move to Adobe Indesign was that when I instert footnotes in Word each footnote appears on a new line.
I am trying to write an English conversation textbook and I am using footnotes to give translations of difficult words so there can be up to 20 footnotes per page. Using word that would mean that I would have half the page dedicated to a thin column of footnotes down the left hand side of the bottom half of the page (since each footnote appears on a new line).
I tried using a text box in Word but the problem with that was that if I wanted to insert a new footnote in the middle of the page I would have to renumber all of the subsequent footnotes. The autonumbering and ordering of footnotes according to the position from where they are indexed is rather nice.
I read in the Indesign bumph (I believe) that Indesign handled footnotes better than pagemaker. I don't know how pagemaker handled them but I cannot find a nice "insert footnote" tool in Indesign. Footnotes are not mentioned in my beginners guide to Indesign, or the book that comes with the disk, and the only mention of them in my (Japanese language) helpfiles is in the section on importing from MS Word files.
I know that Indesign is much more powerful than Word but perhaps since it is for DTP professionals rather than writers, it does not have autonumbered footnotes?
Any suggestions?
Update. Indesign does not do footnotes! This is amazing!!!!
Aparently framemaker ($800) does. Corel Ventura does too but it does not work with Japanese. There are some scripts for Indesign that help but this one
uses Word, so that will not help me, I presume. However this plugin here MAY work
But it is $199 I think. For one plugin.
There is also a rudimentary script here
but it is pretty basic. It just increments superscripts.
Wow. I never knew footnotes would be so difficult.
Timothy
First of all I apologize for my non-DTP-ness. I am a wold be born again Word and OOo user.
One of the reasons I wanted to give up on Word and move to Adobe Indesign was that when I instert footnotes in Word each footnote appears on a new line.
I am trying to write an English conversation textbook and I am using footnotes to give translations of difficult words so there can be up to 20 footnotes per page. Using word that would mean that I would have half the page dedicated to a thin column of footnotes down the left hand side of the bottom half of the page (since each footnote appears on a new line).
I tried using a text box in Word but the problem with that was that if I wanted to insert a new footnote in the middle of the page I would have to renumber all of the subsequent footnotes. The autonumbering and ordering of footnotes according to the position from where they are indexed is rather nice.
I read in the Indesign bumph (I believe) that Indesign handled footnotes better than pagemaker. I don't know how pagemaker handled them but I cannot find a nice "insert footnote" tool in Indesign. Footnotes are not mentioned in my beginners guide to Indesign, or the book that comes with the disk, and the only mention of them in my (Japanese language) helpfiles is in the section on importing from MS Word files.
I know that Indesign is much more powerful than Word but perhaps since it is for DTP professionals rather than writers, it does not have autonumbered footnotes?
Any suggestions?
Update. Indesign does not do footnotes! This is amazing!!!!
Aparently framemaker ($800) does. Corel Ventura does too but it does not work with Japanese. There are some scripts for Indesign that help but this one
uses Word, so that will not help me, I presume. However this plugin here MAY work
But it is $199 I think. For one plugin.
There is also a rudimentary script here
but it is pretty basic. It just increments superscripts.
Wow. I never knew footnotes would be so difficult.
Timothy