If your footnotes look rubbish, then it is probably the designer. Function over form on this one – we are relaying information here, not sweeping it out of sight to make the page less 'cluttered'. Seriously? Giving the information on the page is way more user-friendly than having to constantly refer to another page. That worked far better than bottom of the page footnotes or endnotes. I can't do that in ID. Untangling Tolkien, my day-by-day chronology of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings was done in Framemaker, which allowed me create the equivalent of footnotes for references to the source in LOTR in a sidebar alongside the text to which it applies. I would, however, agree with those who'd like to see footnotes handled in a more powerful way. Endnotes far away could be used to give references that most people don't read. Footnotes could be used at the bottom of a page to clarify ideas. And being able to have both in the same document would be handy. In todays world, their appearance at the bottom of a page is seen as clutter by most readers. In the era before computers, endnotes were far easier to typeset. Visit any university library and you'll find that endnotes replaced footnotes long ago, perhaps in the 1950s. In my experience, readers just get annoyed by having to go to the end of the book (or worse, to the end of the chapter in multi-authored volumes).Īdd me to those voting for footnotes and endnotes, but with a strong stress on the later. > In today's world, their appearance at the bottom of a page is seen as clutter by most readers. Endnotes created with the footnote command are. Footnotes are still more labour-intensive than endnotes, but the difference in effort is not nearly as big as it used to be. of the pages and, if using BibTEX, the references may change. Endnotes hung on for non-academic texts and in texts published by penny-pinching publishers, but nowadays footnotes are preferred by many. That's why notes were set as endnotes at some stage. > In the era before computers, endnotes were far easier to typeset. > Visit any university library and you'll find that endnotes replaced footnotes long ago, perhaps in the 1950s.Ĭomplete nonsense. And users should be able to define their own sequence and appearance of note symbols (asterisk, pilcrow, dagger, double dagger, paragraph symbol, etc.). It should also be possible (as it isn't in InDesign), to set the first footnote in a text as an uncued note. That way each story can have its own numbering style and start number. Footnotes are at the document level in InDesign, they should be at the level of the story. Please, Affinity, whatever you do, don't look at InDesign's notes. > Hope you can implement it in a similar way like in InDesign. You can add a footnote or endnote as follows in either the TEXT editor OR the VISUAL editor. I'll add my vote for footnote and endnote support. Adding Footnotes or Chapter Endnotes Using the Footnote Shortcode.