I can only speak for myself but I am experiencing a deja-vu: the emphasis with Serif seems to be on the flashy stuff at the expense of the (perhaps boring) needs of old-time professionals. This is IMHO noteworthy now, because as it has been suggested in this forum, it seems that after Serif started wooing Apple, something has changed. Apple was namely ”originally” associated as being the weapon of choice among those who did demanding publishing layouts for living. Apple was then accused of focusing of producing flashy stuff for the masses and neglecting if not totally ignoring the original purpose of producing high-end hardware and software for professionals. I am an Apple user and this footnote/endpoint discussion reminds me of the harsh criticism Apple got a few years back. It may be that you point out a significant point. Did the team change before the move to woo Apple users? Don't Apple users need the same essentials, so are they concerned, or have they never had the better experience? I don't think they did it like this years ago with double styles.I wonder to what extent the undoubtedly clever programmers are aware of the necessary functionality of the programs they are designing, or to what extent the needs of the end-users have been solicited? The old Serif programs were genuinely superb, but somewhere things have gone awry. Microsoft Word is really making things difficult. But I really need the footnote/endnote thing to work. The last thing I want is to have to go back to Adobe InDesign. It's a big problem for me, and I hope it will get fixed soon. My style was just a plain paragraph style, but it decided to hang onto the character style all by itself. What happened when I did a find for Footnote reference + Footnote text, and replaced with my NewFootnote text was that all the text went orange, because it was still hanging onto the Footnote Reference superscript style. with No Style.Īctually, so that I could see what was happening, I made my new footnote style green, and the footnote reference orange. All of these styles disappeared when I did that Find and Replace. I did find at one stage that I could get rid of the superscript by putting in No Style for character, but that is no use to me at all because what I have here is an academic paper with footnotes full of italics and small caps. Hopefully there's an easier way to do this but it worked for me. After clicking Replace All my test document was perfect. I solved that by then searching for the combination of Footnote Text and Footnote Reference styles and replacing them with Footnote Text (because that's what you want) and No Style (from the Character style list). Once satisfied with that, I chose Update Document Settings from Selected Footnotes.īut even doing that didn't remove the Footnote Reference character style from the imported footnotes. There's probably an easier way to do this but I found it more straightforward to then insert a temporary footnote. In Note Body > Note Body Style = Footnote Text In Note Body > Number Style = Footnote Reference In Main Text > Number Style = Footnote Reference Then using the Notes panel, I clicked the Footnotes and Custom buttons near the top of the panel and then and set these options. To fix this in Publisher after importing, I redefined the styles to match Word - I changed the font size for Footnote Text, based Footnote Reference on Footnote Text, and removed the size from Footnote Reference. It imported without being based on anything and arrived as 12pt, but was otherwise okay. I defined Footnote Reference, which was based on Footnote Text, as Underline in addition to the default Superscript. In Word I defined Footnote Text as Caslon 18pt Italic Orange but the text size was set to 10pt after importing. Issue 2 - the styles were not faithfully imported. It also had a character attribute of 10pt applied to the entire footnote, overriding the style which was defined as 10pt. Issue 1 - the wrong styles and attributes were applied to the footnote. After importing, the entire footnote, including the note number and note body had the Footnote Reference character style applied to it when it should just have been applied to the note number. There have been other reports of this so I decided to test it out today, here's my test file. Word applies the Footnote Text paragraph style to the footnote, including the note number. Word also applies the Footnote Reference character style to the note number in the main text and to the note number in the footnote. Publisher works the same except that it can apply separate character styles to the note numbers in the main text and footnote, so there's no conflict. There are a couple of bugs in Publisher's importing of Word footnotes.
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