Several styles of note calling in an article

FabienT. -  
 FabienT. -
Hello,

I would like to format a text, which is a translation, and I would like to distinguish between the author's notes and the translator's notes using different notation (for example, using numbers for the author's notes and letters or an asterisk for the translator's notes). However, I've been looking at the footnote options panel in the document, and I can't find a solution...

Has anyone encountered this problem before, or does anyone have a lead to solve it?

Thanks in advance,

Fabien

Configuration: Windows / Firefox 60.0

4 answers

  1. FabienT.
     
    Thank you for your reply, Alex-, but I'm not sure I understand correctly.
    In fact, in a typical publication – here a book – you don’t create one block for the text and one block for the notes below. There is one block with the text, and InDesign places the notes at the bottom of the block in the style you chose.

    My problem is that I would like to have two different styles of footnote references in the same block.
    One note could be referenced by a number, in the traditional way, and another by an asterisk (for example), with the next one being referenced again by a number.
    However, InDesign does not allow for each footnote reference to choose a character (number, letter, symbol). Once you choose numbers, it seems to me that you cannot, occasionally, use a letter for a reference...

    This is what I would like to achieve.
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    1. Alex- Posted messages 3004 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   963
       
      Personally, I don't use the footnote reference insertion but rather a text block positioned at the bottom of the page using the template; this allows me to have the control you're looking for. There may be an advantage to using the footnote reference insertion, but I doubt it since the purpose of the InDesign document is printing. But just in case, you might find what you're looking for here:

      https://helpx.adobe.com/fr/indesign/user-guide.html/fr/indesign/using/footnotes.ug.html
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  2. Alex- Posted messages 3004 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   963
     
    Hello,
    As in a classic publication, it is enough to put numbers in superscript on the part of the text that should point to the corresponding notes and at the bottom of the page, create a text block with the notes in question, all in a style different from the main body text.
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  3. FabienT.
     
    I understand that this solution may be useful in some cases, but for a 256-page book with around 300 notes, it is hardly practical to tinker with each page. Not all pages have notes, some have many, and the text is likely to be modified or corrected later, which could cause it to shift a bit, possibly from one page to another.
    If I manually create footnote references, there is also the risk that a new note will need to be inserted, or that an existing one will be deleted, which would shift the numbering, etc.

    I have already gone through the InDesign documentation, and unfortunately, there is nothing related to my problem, hence my question here.

    Thank you again for your help.
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  4. sarahmoon Posted messages 600 Status Contributor 286
     
    Hello,

    The simplest solution, which is generally used, is to insert at the end of the footnote and in brackets: [N.d.T.] for the translator's note or [N.d.É.] for the editor's note.

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    1. FabienT.
       
      Hello,

      Yes, indeed, that's exactly what I've been doing so far. However, since the book in question is bilingual (with both languages side by side), I wanted to maintain the same order of notes on each side: so that note 1 in French corresponds to note 1 in English, and so on. Therefore, having the translator's notes called by a different symbol would have avoided any misalignment.
      Unfortunately, I still haven't found a solution.
      Thank you anyway.
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