One of the key impediments to InDesign's wide spread adoption in the field of book publishing
and other areas where footnotes are often used has been its lack of direct support for footnotes (footnotes in placed
Word documents become endnotes, there's a difference). This impediment exists no longer, and, with other features new
to InDesign CS2—like automated bullets and numbering, import/export user dictionaries, and anchored objects for
managing margin content—the old standby of QuarkXPress 4.1 will soon begin losing shelf space among the literary
community.
Within the current issue of InDesign Magazine Jamie McKee shows the straight shot of creating footnotes in InDesign CS2.
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1. The new support for footnotes is all very well and good, but what about us magazine layout designers who depended upon footnotes becoming endnotes in InDesign 2.0?
Even if you change footnotes to endnotes in Word, placing this document into InDesign converts all of the endnotes and endnote markers in the text to letters! This is a serious serious problem for us and we are having to place articles from word into InDesign 2.0 and then copy across to CS2 to save having to retype literally thousands of reference numbers and reference markers.
Posted at 6:10AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Amanda Greenslade