Hello, As usual I have an unusual request I think. Pls don’t judge my weird work!
Basically, I have a 70,000 word memoir. We have 340 footnotes and all good there.
However, on the last page of each chapter, I use a comment, with a comment, as opposed to a footnote, which I have set up to appear at the bottom of the page. I’ve been writing this book for years and it’s always worked as I like it.
Suddenly, however, Scrivener has started numbering the comments at the end of each chapter )there is only one on the final page) as if it were a footnote. I cannot for the life of me work out how to get rid of the numbering of the comment.
Can anyone tell me what might have happened or how I can ammend it in the Compile settings perhaps?
Hi
I assume your comment isn’t anchored to your content per se (?)
But… Why don’t you simply have it in the editor, where you want it, and use a style to format it as you want it? It’d be much simpler.
Just because it is commentary doesn’t mean it has to be a “comment”, technically speaking.
Not ruling out that perhaps I completely misunderstood the issue.
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If you absolutely want it at the bottom of the page, then yes, I believe it has to be a comment. Compiled as an endnote, but endnotes don’t have a no-numbering setting afaik. The closer it gets is :
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Thank you so much for your reply. Yes I absolutely want it at the bottom of the page at the end of each chapter as each comment ties in with each chapter heading (a funny/interesting fact about each chapter heading) and the look is to make them appear like a centred footnote all the way through the book.
What is strange is that all my comments DID appear at the end of each chapter perfectly without numbering! Until recently. Everything was perfect. The 320 footnotes were at the end of the boook as endnotes and the comments were at the bottom of the page at the end of each chapter where I anchored them to the end of the text. Something has changed. I know it is possible because it was like this and has been for years till now!
Perhaps there was a numbering before and at the time you just thought “I’ll delete them later”, and you since forgot?
I can’t think of a way to have a footnote without a reference number. (It just wouldn’t make sense either, technically, for the app to offer it. – What would be the point of a footnote without any reference in the text, nor an ID for the footnote itself?)
Another guess would be that you used
and thought you’d make them at the bottom of the page later on, in another app. (?)
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But say somehow it DID work.
Did you change or modify your compile format since?
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Personally, I’d have them final comments in the editor, as styled text (not as a comment).
And I would position them at the bottom of the page, as a final step, in a third party wysiwyg app.
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that is possible but highly unlikely…i kind of recall being rather thrilled with how they looked. there is kind of a reason i want them as comments…because that way in scrivener i see them down the right of the page in the Information Binder, along with the footnotes. It’s a very complex book.
I don’t use any other app so it is certainly not that. I think perhaps the Copy Editor will have to add this to his long list of tasks before we go to Final Proof before Print but I want to have it perfect my end first.
I haven’t used Margin comments.
And yes, there’s a small chance that I changed the Compile format at some stage.
nah, I don’t want them as styled text as I want to be able to see them on the RH in my Info…my co-author and I constantly change the wording of them as we change the chapter titles you see.
Everything is a ‘final step’ when the final steps come. I’d prefer not to add this one to the list! 
Interestingly, someone has just sugested that it is not Scrivener which has changed it but that Word Update has - and that now when I compile to Word that it is the one automatically number the Comments when they weren’t before. That makes sense!
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It would, indeed ; a lot more.
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