several text frames, only one footnote part

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    • June 27, 2017 at 12:29 pm #95704
      Sayed Ali Mousawi
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      i have a book that contains Text and description.
      i have footnotes in both parts, but i want to have all footnotes in bottom of my page.

      PLEASE HELP ME!
      THANK YOU.

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    • June 27, 2017 at 12:31 pm #95709
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      Sayed: How did you get the footnotes in the middle of the page? Are those 2 different text frames? Are you using the InDesign footnote feature? Or did you make your own footnotes?

      • June 27, 2017 at 3:04 pm #95711
        Dwayne Harris
        Member

        That was my first thought. It looks (and sounds like due to the subject title) that several text boxes were used.

        If that’s the case Sayed, you can only have one text frame per page (threaded to each other).

      • June 28, 2017 at 7:42 am #95718
        Sayed Ali Mousawi
        Member

        i want the first text frame threaded to the first text frame on the next page.
        and the second text frame threaded to the second text frame on the next page.
        But i want to have all page footnotes together.

      • June 28, 2017 at 7:37 am #95716
        Sayed Ali Mousawi
        Member

        Yes, i have 2 different text frames.
        i Convert footnotes to sidenotes (with sidenotes.jsx by Kahrel) just for the first text frame (i wanted them detached from text frame) , then i manually copy&paste it before the first footnote in the second text frame below.
        then i set numbering footnotes from 3.
        i know that, this is not a good idea, but i had no choice, except you guys help me. i need it.

    • June 28, 2017 at 7:26 am #95715
      Sayed Ali Mousawi
      Member

      Hi
      My name is Sayedali Mousawi.
      i’m originally from Afghanistan but now i live in iran.
      i have a problem in indesign with footnotes.

      i have a book with two part:
      1.main text
      2. description
      and both part have footnotes.
      But the problem is that i need both footnote parts together like the left page on the picture.
      (i made it manually for one page only but i need it to be done automaticly, because it’s a large book in several volume )
      Please HELP me.

    • June 28, 2017 at 8:19 am #95722
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      I think you may need to use Peter Kahrel’s footnote scripts to create the footnotes instead of InDesign’s built-in feature.

      • June 28, 2017 at 9:28 am #95732
        Sayed Ali Mousawi
        Member

        i couldn’t find any script that make footnotes detached from text frame as a separate text frame.
        can you give me the link.

    • June 29, 2017 at 6:42 am #95740
      Michel Allio for FRIdNGE
      Participant

      Sayedali,

      Could you post a new screenshot? Thanks!

      (^/)

    • June 30, 2017 at 12:52 am #95768
      Michel Allio for FRIdNGE
      Participant

      Just 3 questions!

      1/ How many pages in your book?
      2/ How many notes in the “above” text frames
      3/ Is there a risk that the layout moves?

      (^/)

      • June 30, 2017 at 6:52 am #95770
        Sayed Ali Mousawi
        Member

        thank you!

        1. from 500 to have many it goes.
        2. it depends, some pages no footnotes, some pages 4 or 5.
        3. Yes there is but we can do our best and make every thing not moving.

    • July 3, 2017 at 5:52 am #95807
      Michel Allio for FRIdNGE
      Participant

      Hi,

      What numbering do you use for the footnotes?
      Page, Spread, Section or Doc?

      (^/)

    • December 7, 2017 at 12:20 am #100107
      Tomoko Okayasu
      Participant

      Hello,
      I am facing similar difficulty: I have an inset text with a footnote in a separate text frame. My client wants the footnote to align with those in the main text at the bottom of the page and numbered consecutively with the other footnotes. Is there any way or easy workaround to do this? I am currently manually adding superscript number in the inset and the footnote text at the bottom of the page to align with the others.

      Thank you!

    • December 7, 2017 at 1:47 am #100108
      Michel Allio for FRIdNGE
      Participant

      Hi,

      … “Is there any way or easy workaround to do this?”

      If “easy”, somebody would have already written a script for that! =D

      Doable? … Surely!

      (^/)
      [email protected]

      [Such a script is not proposed for free because I think such a gratuity no longer values scripters’ real work and knowledge, as it may have been the case by the past!]

    • December 7, 2017 at 4:31 pm #100147
      Tomoko Okayasu
      Participant

      Thank you, Obi-wan, for letting me know there’s no free script to do this.
      If you know of a site where I can buy such a script, would you kindly give me a link?
      If not, I suppose I have to create it myself.

      I thought I could work around by converting text to table, but InDesign doesn’t allow footnotes in a table cell as does in Word.

    • December 8, 2017 at 6:41 am #100193
      Michel Allio for FRIdNGE
      Participant

      Hi,

      Tell me in private for what price you could be OK! I’ll answer you if I’m interested to write it!

      email: [email protected]

      (^/)

    • December 15, 2017 at 4:00 pm #100360
      Raja Gejaraj
      Member

      I’m also having such feedback, could you please anyone confirm whether this can be achieved?

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