G’Day,
I’ve been given a rough template from a design studio for a document which I need to convert to a working template to produce many 200-300 page documents. I obviously need to automate things as much as possible.
The rough template shows the footnotes with a full column rule above (easy to replicate with the Document Footnote Options) and also a full column rule below the list of footnotes. I’m stuck at (automatically) formatting this rule below. I could apply a rule below to the Footnote Paragraph style but if there is more than one footnote, the rules would show under each footnote.
I don’t want to apply a rule to the bottom of each text frame as on some pages there are no footnotes so no rule is needed.
I found this cool GREP way of selecting the last paragraph in a story (https://creativepro.com/auto-style-the-last-or-first-paragraph-of-an-indesign-story.php), but it doesn’t work on footnotes as all footnotes select as the last paragraph.
I use this GREP search to find all footnotes “~F\t.+”. I’m not very adept at GREP expressions, but is it possible to modify this GREP to select the last footnote on a page/text frame? then I can apply a different Paragraph style with rule below to those footnotes.
Or I’m open to any other ideas (GREP, Scripts or other) to automatically apply a rule to the end of my footnotes.