This shows that the superscript number is a critical element in the myriad of programming thats behind the scenes in indesign, controlling things like footnote numbers, editing, cuttingpasting, etc. In a paper book, having a little superscript number to indicate the footnote is ok. The superscript 1 appears in the text with same number at the bottom of the page. Since this does seem to have something to do with it. The superscript number that appears in the body text is called a citation or reference and the superscript number is in the tag. Endnote superscripts are lost when exported to epub. There is an adornment at the bottom left corner of the endnote frame you can create endnotes or import them from word or documents. How to handle footnotes when working with epub files. A footnote can appear in a popup window headed footnotes or alternatively, i am.
Sidenotes do not neccasarily need superscript numbers within the text and. Click the reference number or mark in the body of the text or click insert show footnotesfor endnotes, click insert. The footnote usually contains supporting or additional information that might be of interest to the reader but is placed separately so the main document doesnt get cluttered up. Apr 19, 2019 while not impossible, im going to suggest endnotes rather than footnotes. My footnotes have lost their superscript microsoft community. If you hover the mouse cursor over it, you should see font. Simply put the tag around the text you want in superscript. Sidenotes may not need the reference numbers or symbols as long as they.
If you delete two prior footnotes, framemaker will automatically renumber all the footnotes, and 17 will become 15, and 18 becomes 16, etc. The superscript number will appear in the text automatically. Footnote without a marker tex latex stack exchange. Pagetoscreen footnotes, endnotes, sidenotes and popup notes. In this we can set the way the references are displayed in the text superscript etc, and how the footnotes appear at the bottom of the page. Footnotes, endnotes, sidenotes and popup notes pagetoscreen. But it seems that footnotes display in one of two ways when i click the superscript number. Footnote number does not appear as superscript in the body of document if you find that a document no longer has footnote numbers in the body of the document superscripted, we need to make sure the superscript code is added globally again to the appropriate style. Word inserts a reference mark in the text and adds the endnote mark at the end of the document. Aug 29, 20 in microsoft word, put the cursor at the end of the word you want to create a footnote for.
Make sure indesign didnt improperly superscript an entire final. This is exactly the case when working with footnotes and endnotes. Note that if youre posting to reddit, you can actually already do exponentssuperscript by writing x2 which would produce x and. Endnotes can be at the end of the book or at the end of the chapter or section. Decades of experience with footnotes led me to privilege a scheme of footnotes numbering without superscripting in the footnote area by contrast, i do fully agree with and enjoy use of superscript for footnote numbers in the main text area.
What i do in the ebooks i prepare is to add an hyperlink to the note placed in a chapter of its own at the end of the book, and to put at the end of the note another hyperlink which goes back to the original position. As a result, when i attempt to import to epub software, it doesnt recognize it. This epub to docx converter can convert epub electronic publication files to docx office open xml document ebook. To remove a footnote, highlight the superscript number in the body of the document and press delete. I just create the foot endnotes in word easy enough and just export the word document to epub with my addin. In a previous article, we talked about uses for footnotes and endnotes and how to insert them into a document. I want the numbers in my footnotes not to be superscripted, and i want the.
I tend to edit the epub and change the footnote link to cover the word or phrase the footnote refers to. Footnote number does not appear as superscript in the body of document 1 click on the format menu. As long as we installed it, we can edit our epub files with word easily. Where you write the footnote is here is not the footnote. If you are an indesign cc 2014 user planning to export a fixedlayout epub and you have footnotes in your document, you might be dissapointed to notice that there is no option to make these footnotes become popup notes using the epub3 standard epub. Do not use the sup element to superscript note references, as it is redundant presentational tagging. Id like to have the number between round brackets as shown in the image and in normal text not superscript. This is true in existing documents as well as new documents. Include sequential numbers not sure if storyists export to epub retains superscript at the same locations where the original word document has the footnote numbers and, at the end of the chapter or end of the book, include a pages with those numbers and the references. But for a different epub3 book all 64 popup footnotes work with no problem and some of those 64 footnotes are long. But using hanging footnotes its a bit annoying to have the notes marked with that superscript number that rises above the line probably makes sense to distinguish when the marker is right next to the note text.
Mar 21, 2017 superscript is working correctly on all other characters, and footnote references are shown as having the superscript style. I recall when reading dodger that the footnotes were not hyperlinks. How to create popup footnotes in ibooks which degrade well. Article footnotes and other diversions digital publishing hub. Both in the text and in the footnote area of the page. Now, depending on what version of word you are using, youll either click on insert and then footnote or, references and insert footnote. Change footnotes style in word 2016 switch from superscript. Place the cursor where you would like the superscript number to appear. Aug 17, 2015 sidenotes do not neccasarily need superscript numbers within the text and they themselves do not need to be numbered, if it is obvious what the sidenote refers to.
Instead it appears as normal number directly after the word. The two books use identical footnote styles and settings. The cursor will jump to the footnote section at the bottom of the page. Create links to footnotes amazon kindle direct publishing. Booksmart does not currently support superscript or subscript text. Editing footnotes in indesign adobe support community. I previously searched for how to add superscript to endnote citations a while ago but did not work since there are minor changes regarding the buttons or so. So thats the drawback but if it isnt an issue for you, then just uncheck ms word s option for include textboxes, footnotes and endnotes. Sep 10, 2019 if an ebook has page numbers then you provide those page numbers in your footnote, the same as you would for a print book. Footnote number does not appear as superscript in the body of. Using a word processor, then exporting or using a plugin, and then. The footnote text is fine, its the actual footnote number in the body of the document that im having problems with.
As footnotes can be very important, that would render the epub useless on those readers. Unlike the pdf, the footnotes in ms word are no longer at the bottom of the page. Footnotes with indesign indesign will help us build footnotes and the software will even import the footnotes from microsoft word. Wherever the note is deposited it needs a number or symbol reference set as superscript within the text. Footnotescitations not superscript word, excel, outlook. The footnote reference style is correctly stored as a character style that applies superscript, and the footnote references do have the footnote reference style. Also, the footnote superscript numbers in the body of the text are not linked to the footnote itself. How to insert footnotes and endnotes in microsoft word. How to create footnotes for kindle ebooks ebook template. Remember, there are millions of those readers out there.
The unicode spec contains superscript characters for all of the numbers and letters except i and q. Any superscript character, including numbers, even if you copy and paste it from word or a blog, for instance just plain doesnt work in booksmart right now. But, if you just wrap that number with tags to link elsewhere, you have this tiny spot on the screen to press to trigger the link. Since theyre not smart endnotes, you have no global control over them. When i went to modify the normal style, i had an option to change footnote text, but not the footnote number itself. While not impossible, im going to suggest endnotes rather than footnotes.
When youre working with a publication that has footnotes,those footnotes can be easily transferred to an ebook,when you export this document to the epub format. Endnotes are automatically numbered as they are added to a. In the modify style dialog, click format, then font, and check the box for superscript. The style above it will be footnote reference, which should be defined as superscript, based on default paragraph font. Thanks for the help, but i didnt see how to change the footnote. I am a scholar regularly writing articles with a lot of footnotes.
So the way to add superscript to your citations in endnote x8 is. However, id much prefer my footnotes to appear through popups ie, if someone clicks a superscript link for a footnote, instead of linking to reference pages at the back, id like a popup to appear in the footer providing the. Apr 23, 2015 epub 3 support ibooks and the ibookstore now support epub 3 for flowing books. I would like to have a footnote about the funding source of my work in the first page without marker. The kepub reader app handles this making the link larger. Scroll down the list of styles until you find the footnote reference it should have a blue box around it. Export to reflowable epub from indesign gives you the popup notes option. All of my footnote numbering is not in superscript. Document endnotes are automatically made if your word file was using footnotes. Sidenotes do not necessarily need superscript numbers within the text and they themselves do not need to be numbered, if it is obvious what the sidenote refers to. Indesign users get their very own configuration panel seen in the image alongside here. In this context, the term footnote is a bit of a misnomer. Ive almost got my footnotes formatted just the way i want them, thanks to the footmisc package.
One of the drawbacks of using built in functions of microsoft word is that the ability to customise the results is often limited. Embed every font that is referenced in the input document but not already embedded. Unchecking the superscript option merely makes the citation appear larger but does not change its position. These footnotes are linked and it is easy to jump back and forth. Increasing the font size works but is probably not practical. If file upload process takes a very long time or no response or very slow, please try to. How can footnotes, endnotes, margin notes and other deviations from the. However, the marker reference does not appear within the normal text where i placed this command. Changing the style of footnotes and endnotes to match. A few books i have dont have proper footnote support, which makes me kind of sad. Superscript links for endnotes is where im ultimately going with this.
In the first file i had success with both the footnote numbers in the text, and at the beginning of the endnotes, were superscript. Im reading a book on my paperwhite that has a lot of footnotes and of course, the kindle makes it very easy to reference them as i read. You can choose to have a separate file with all the notes or at the end of every file the notes in that file. It was nothing related to the content of the 4th footnote, becasue the populs do not work when i repeat the first footnote in place of the 4th footnote. Mar 30, 2008 thanks for the help, but i didnt see how to change the footnote. I have a docx with footnotes that i wanna turn to popup. Convert your word document to endnotes, then place it, and youre good to go. If youre using word 2003 or earlier, press the ctrl, alt, and f keys on your keyboard at the same time to create footnotes. It provides an extra piece of information about a subject mentioned further up on the same page. If an ebook has page numbers then you provide those page numbers in your footnote, the same as you would for a print book. A problem with popup footnotes epub 3 indesignsecrets. Footnote number does not appear as superscript in the body.
Where endnotes are used the references will be numbers set in superscript to the right of the last word in reference context. They are set up with character styles, but also were imported as superscript. What is the standard for handling footnotes when tagging a. That will automatically insert a numbered footnote at the bottom of the page. After the footnote numeral appears at the bottom, indent five spaces to begin the footnote for the first line. If you want to add a footnote link, you need to use the shortcode ref. The new superscript markers were not font size 11, so it was easy to then search the document for the five size11 unconverted note markers and manually insert live footnotes. I need to change the footnote style in ms word 2016. Theres a cool new feature in indesign ccthat lets you export footnotesto become a popup, as opposed to a traditional footnote. Be sure to specify the paragraph style used for your footnotes, and then edit that style and configure it appropriately.
While looking into footnotes and endnotes in word for we came upon a strange bug. Thats not how footnotes references are created or termed. Convertlink superscript numbers to footnotes microsoft office forums. In the style dialog, footnote text will be selected. The epub 3 popup note in the ibooks ereader has nothing to do with the foot of a page.
In an ebook reader environment, the width of a page is variab. Jan 19, 2009 the sup tag tells your browser to put the enclosed characters in superscript. When you export from indesgn to epub reflowable, you have an. I want to create a reflowable epub with superscripts linked to footnotes in an appendix. It would be worth looking into what capabilities adobe indesign has for creating footnotesendnotes. Like footnotes, the text has the number of the footnote after it. For some reason, when i utilize the references insert footnote tool, the citation itself, as well as the footnote, have ceased to appear superscripted, although if i go into the font dialogue box, the superscript option is still checked.
You can also format text as superscript or subscript by selecting options in the font dialog box, as described in the next procedure. Once upload completed, converter will redirect a web page to show the conversion result. I dont know whats going on, but the footnote references in word 2016 are now all anchored to the baseline. All or nearly all of the text in superscript is the result of a macro in ms word to unlink endnotes and turn them into plain text, i.
I have the problem, that my footnote number does not appear as superscript at the word. Anyone trying to hide the footnotes in a document will strike it. Another option is to include the footnotes inline in the main body text, perhaps set off from the main body text with horizontal rules and even a different font. A footnote is a note placed at the bottom of a page in a document. Footnote font, footnote font size, footnote superscript, and footnote spacing this video will explain how to change these attributes. Our nook ereading devices support the character set listed in our epub formatting guide available in the epub. The popups will not work and the footnotes will not be visible in another way. Microsoft word makes it very easy to insert footnotes, following these simple steps. It is very convenient that you can simply click on a footnote and go back. How and when to use footnotes including word instructions. Identify footnotes within the text using the aside element.
However, these footnotes are not properly linked in microsoft word. Jun 04, 20 apple could certainly come up with a bestofbothworlds solution to the use of traditional footnote marks in an interactive text. Because in word, the footnote reference number is the footnote. As i said, you can make a vba routine to do this, but you need to find a copy of word that will run vba. Can i use footnotes, superscript or subscript text. Looking at the type footnote options dialogue, it specifically states footnote reference number in text. After we install it successfully, once we open a word document, we can see epubee maker from the menu bar. Word for mac footnote reformat period, tab, not superscript. I need to change numbering of footnotes in framema.
To change the style of footnote numbering in footnote area, select which one you want to use footnote characters by default in tools footnotes endnotes footnotes tab character styles footnote area. The text fragment is enclosed in shortcodes ref will be put out at the end of the article. Well, technically all of the text was importedplaced from a word doc originally. I have tested the new feature endnotes, but the links didnt work in epub files, when you divide the indd files by export. I want to change the superscript numbers to footnote for the entire file having nearly 1500 entries. Click the home tab, and then in the styles group, click the arrow for more options. But regular footnotes from indd works as endnotes, because always goes to the end of chapter. Home files word macro to convert nonfunctional endnotesfootnotes.
Word macro to convert nonfunctional endnotesfootnotes. It will convert the notes automatically to endnotes. If you unlink it you delete the footnote object completely. For subscript, press ctrl and the equal sign at the same time. If the sentence is written in parentheses, insert the footnote number within the parentheses. At the top of the window, in the references menu, click insert footnote. Footnotes are intended to go at the bottom foot of a fixedwidth page print, or a pdf that mimics print.
Do not use superscripts and subscripts, as they will cause extra leading space between the lines of text. Assistance with footnote chicago manual 16 style p. Html for dummies how to make a footnote, superscript and hard. Then edit that style to match your needs by going to format styles and formatting character styles second icon from the left at the top, rightclick previously. Word 2016 footnote reference style is broken tech support guy. I would recommend that you also create a superscript character style and enable the option to apply it.
Select just the number of a footnote, either in the text or in the footnote. Indesign will help us build footnotes and the software will even import the footnotes from microsoft word. This tutorial shows how to insert footnotes and endnotes in microsoft word using the tools in the ribbon manually inserting individual footnotes and endnotes in word is relatively straightforward. And before the opening ref is formed a superscript with the serial number of the reference footnote. Its a bit ugly, but at least it helps readers in the sense of people, not devices.
If an ebook does not have page numbers or does not have constant page numbers e. Im working on file which having superscript numbers for footnotes, not inserted with the option insert footnote. Render superscripts and subscripts so that they do not affect the line height. To change the font, size and formatting of footnotes. Aug 29, 2011 indesigns default applies superscript as a local override to the footnote marker. In epub 3 flowing and fixed layout books, you can create popup footnotes by labeling footnotes with the appropriate epub. If i turn on superscript again, the font size changes, but instead of baseline shift upward, the character stays anchored. This is clearly not ideal for reference footnotes, but for the sample youve included, it could be a totally reasonable way to go, and would work across all epub reading systems. Of course, if you are not happy with the style you can modify character styles or endnotes.