Footnotes columns and text wrap

Naomi Cahen

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    • September 27, 2020 at 2:10 am #127177
      Naomi Cahen
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      Hello all,
      For a book I’m designing (where all the footnotes have already been created), I’d like the footnote layout to behave this way:
      1. If there is enough footnote content, it lays itself out on three columns. If not, only the one or two columns (same width as if there were three columns).
      2. Normal text should wrap around the one or two columns (as 3 columns would take the whole normal text space).
      I haven’t found a way of doing this although there seems to be a script that does nearly that called Footwork. Not sure it’s what I want though because it doesn’t let the amount of footnote text generate the one or two or three column condition. But I may be wrong…
      It would be easier to explain this question with a drawing… But if anyone has an idea, please, I really could do with the help!
      Thanks a lot :)

    • September 27, 2020 at 3:31 am #127178
      Dieter Stockert
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      I don’t know what the Script does. But otherwise I could only think of a lot of manual work. And it would require to change the footnotes to endnotes. So you can place the foot- respective endnotes in separate text frames and apply text wrap wherever you need it.

    • September 30, 2020 at 12:02 pm #127218
      R Dol
      Member

      What Footwork does is to separate the footnotes to another story, keeping the references and footnotes on the same page
      On the new story created you could give columns as you like…

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