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footnotes and margin notes in same document
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11:38 am
March 25, 2011


Matt P

Grand Rapids, MI

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Hello everyone, this is my first post. I am working in InDesign CS5 on a Mac.

I am looking at taking on a project that will have both footnotes and margin notes. It is an annotated book with margin notes from the original author, and then additional footnotes by a commentator. The footnotes are in the Word file and the margin notes in another file. There are over 1000 margin notes. I am familiar with the Peter Kahrel scripts. What would be the best workflow, hopefully avoiding manual placement of the margin notes?

Also, any way this could possibly exported as an ebook? Can there be both footnote links and cross reference links in an ebook?

Thank you for your help.

-Matt

7:39 am
March 29, 2011


orielwen

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I think you might have to place the marginal notes manually.  But if you do them as anchored objects and take care what text you anchor them to, I think you might be able to make an ebook with them in place.

8:00 am
March 29, 2011


David Blatner

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You might also take a look at the Side Heads plug-in from in-tools: http://in-tools.com/products/p…..ide-heads/

They have several long-document solutions that can help in these kinds of publications.

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5:07 am
April 1, 2011


Ann_Camilla

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Tim Cole wrote a really interesting piece in his blog <http://blogs.adobe.com/indesignchannel/2007/11/anchored_frames_productivity_s.html> about shortcuts to place an anchored frame precisely in the margin for side notes. I used it  successfully in a very long book that had footnotes and side notes.

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