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Breaks between footnotes

Aug 16, 2012 11:17 AM

Is is possible to make footnotes NOT separate by line-break? I want all the footnotes to flow one after the other, like a paragraph.

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266 Views 3 Replies Latest reply: David W. Goodrich, Aug 16, 2012 12:17 PM

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1. Steve Werner,

Aug 16, 2012 12:05 PM in reply to Zalman Friedman

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Unfortunately, no. There are many additions/enhancements which have been suggested to the footnotes feature. It has been sadly neglected since it's initial release.

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2. Zalman Friedman,

Aug 16, 2012 12:14 PM in reply to Steve Werner

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Is there any other way?

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3. David W. Goodrich,

Aug 16, 2012 12:17 PM in reply to Zalman Friedman

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The quick answer is no, ID's automatic footnotes make each one a separate paragraph. If you really want all the footnotes to run-in together you can put them in a separate story that you run across the bottoms of the relevant pages. Peter Kahrel offers some very useful tips and scripts.

However, running footnotes together may make it harder for the reader to find one in the middle. If what you really want is to put two or three short footnotes on one line, you can define special paragraph styles for the second and third that indent to the appropriate point and then set the leading to zero causing the 2nd and 3rd footnotes to overlap the fine for first footnote.

David

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