Comments on: Sequential Numbering Inside Paragraphs

By: N. Raghunathan, Mumbai, India

N. Raghunathan, Mumbai, India — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 04:44:01 +0000

i have gone through the intersting discussions on this site. I am having a problem with foot notes in Adobe in design cs 4. when i pasted a fresh set of pages in a doc in- in design, the fn numbering starts from 1 all over again in the fresh set of pages. i am not able to insert foot notes manually, as it does not creat the space below the text. I am stuck for help

By: Joshua Scult

Joshua Scult — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:26:40 +0000

Well, not all is lost. You can do the fottnotes in another Doc and then cut and paste the Textframe and it will RETAIN the the options set in the original doc and not be affected by the settings of the doc it was pasted into. I wish I had the time (and brains) to make something that would automate this…sigh

Joshua

By: Klaus Nordby

Klaus Nordby — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:32:36 +0000

Joshua, I described this problem in my post #5 — the footnote settings are doc-global. I know no present solution to your problem — which is why we still need Adobe to code a counter! And we also need to be able to set up footnotes which are frame-wide, not just column-wide. And, natch, we need headings which are frame-wide, spanning multiple columns — so the ID engineers can’t retire quite yet.

By: Joshua Scult

Joshua Scult — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:52:52 +0000

Wow, this is a great idea for a terrible problem I have been having.(p.s. David helped me with this)
I want to have textbox with 2 columns with footnotes running across the bottom of those columns in one column. ID CS3 footnotes can’t handle this. So I have added fake footnote refs in the doc. using this idea. Now the footnotes themselves I can create in another text frame and use this idea again to create them and then manually place them at the bottom of the page. The only problem however with this is the FN options carrry across the whole doc. right? So even if I create a second doc for the footnotes themselves with different options and then later paste it into the main doc it’ll get messed up right?
any solutions?

By: Andrew Herzog

Andrew Herzog — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:03:48 +0000

No, I was basing that remark off of the graphic shown for the post “Numbering Lines of Text”. That graphic made it look like you were numbering paragraphs and I was thinking this was doing the same thing.

Probably just getting my Posts Crossed.

By: Klaus Nordby

Klaus Nordby — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:16:28 +0000

David, Bob & Sandee — thanks! And fear not for me and my hatless head, for here in Oslo we’ve been having a splendidly fallish-springish winter all winter, with glorious spring conditions today. But of course, my Inline Counter is still cool!

By: Sandee "vectorbabe" Cohen

Sandee "vectorbabe" Cohen — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:51:30 +0000

Whoa! Way cool. (I would expect nothing less cool from Norway!)

By: Klaus Nordby

Klaus Nordby — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:41:54 +0000

Andrew: “If they are to be removed, won’t you have to remove all 1300+, one at a time?”

No. For our friend Ctrl-F fixes that also, and in near-zero time.

I did some export tests. A plain .TXT export omits all the numbers, not even leaving a blank space. .RTF keeps the numbers, making them hyperlinks to the non-existing footnotes. Ditto for the XHTML export.

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:18:49 +0000

Andrew, these will definitely stay in when you print. Would you want them for screen display only?

By: Andrew Herzog

Andrew Herzog — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:55:52 +0000

Just for my curiosities.

Will these numbers stay in the document when you print?

If they are to be removed, won’t you have to remove all 1300+, one at a time?

If they are removed, won’t this cause the potential for reflow?