Affinity publisher footnotes11/28/2023 ![]() Apparently that's how Publisher does "fitting" - there's no menu or contextual menu option for it I think.I would like to see the option to format them on one line: 1. If they could add a feature to Text Wrap that wraps to the text contents rather than the bounding box that would certainly help, you wouldn't have to adjust the box height - you might be able to make the macro double-click the center top resize handle to resize the textbox to fit the content. In fact using an Asset might even be the right answer even when using KM to automate placing it and adjusting it. and then you can drag it from the Asset pallet to the page you need it on. I'd take 80 keypresses over doing all those steps 80 times.įor those not willing to/able to get KM, consider creating a footnote text box asset with all the frame settings for runaround etc. If you're working on one big document, you likely can have KM do all the heavy lifting and create the text box with correct Text Frame settings for runaround, of the right width, adequate height, in the correct position so all you have to do is make sure all the text fits & there's no overflow. You can assign a hot key to the text style for footnotes and have the macro apply it as well. This certainly will never take the place of having a real footnote feature, but for those who are struggling with a huge number of footnotes in documents, consider getting Keyboard Maestro, and putting together a macro to create a text box at the bottom of a document and paste the clipboard into it, then return you to the move tool. They're not harder than what has already been done but they are a pain. There's a reason page layout apps usually don't include footnotes in version 1 and they get added down the road. ![]() The deluxe approach is to allow modal editing of notes inline so that you could access the regular character and paragraph formatting features, but this adds much more text flow engine complexity. The footnote 'zone' of a frame would be non-editable. The text editing engine would also need changes - the simple approach is to allow editing of notes in a dialog like index marks. For example, if the marker is in the first line of the frame and the note is so long that they're both pushed to the next frame which is the same size so they're pushed again and again. This is why footnote features usually include the ability to split notes across multiple pages and if you implement footnotes without this feature you have to truncate long notes and warn the user. The worst case scenario is if the marker and note won't fit into the next frame either. The keep with previous/next settings make this more complicated than this sounds. It's possible that the space allocated for the footnote text would push the associated footnote marker to the next page and in that case the marker and note both have to be pushed to the next page, leaving a white space gap on the current page. Then the engine continues composing the current paragraph line by line until it hits the space allocated for the footnote(s). When the text flow engine encounters a footnote marker it then composes the footnote text for inclusion at the bottom of the current frame, adding it to a queue to potentially render there. Not to mention that the footnote frames will have to be smart enough to find the notes referred to in the text flow.įootnotes go into the same frame, not a separate frame, because the text frame could be any shape, not just a rectangle. These footnote frames will need to be smart enough to tell the next frame to expand its footnote frame and accept the overflow from this note. Text frames will also have to be rewritten to include zero sized footnote frames in each one. ![]() I'm not saying it's impossible for scenarios where the user selected the marker and the note but adding this capability would lead to ongoing tech support issues given that every website can format footnotes in a different manner. This is less likely.Ĭopying text from another website can't create footnotes - if you selected a range of text with a superscripted number then the page layout app would have to guess if it's a footnote but in any case it wouldn't be able to retrieve the footnote if the note is not part of the selected text range. ![]() Footnotes are stored like index markers, there's a marker which points to other data.Ĭopying text from another app is a different matter - it depends what the receiving app can read from the clipboard. If a page layout app supports the same footnote features then importing from Word, RTF, and IDML is straightforward. Now we have to consider how to handle text from a copy and paste from Word or any other word processor, or even a website. Every MS Word, RTF and IDML file will have to be parsed in order to get the text into Publisher's new doubled format.
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