Compiling and Endnotes

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Hi everybody.
I’m quite new to scrivener and I’m facing a serious problem here.
I am writing my thesis with Scrivener, however I’d like to do the layouting in indesign. Therefore I would need a set of single files for say the single chapters of my thesis. I use footnotes quite excessively and that’s were the problem starts. I have to add that I want these notes to be shown as endnotes with in one single sequence of numbers (starting with 1 on the first page and continuing…)

It appears to me that under normal circumstances the footnotes added via inspector are numbered when compiling. In my case the endnotes are added at the end of the compiled document. However, there seems to be no way to compile to multiple documents.
The export command lets me create single documents, but every document hast its own sequence of endnote-numbers (starting with 1 at beginning of every document).

So I guess my questions are:
Is there a way to compile to multiple files?
Is it possible to export multiple documents with a single sequence of endnote-numbers?

Any suggestions? :slight_smile:

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Hmm, that’s a difficult problem to solve with the given tools. While there are ways to coerce the compiler into generating multiple files (setting aside pure manual, where you compile 20 times or whatever), there are all within the plain-text oriented workflows where one can employ post-processing scripts to split the file up. With RTF, and the word processing formats based on that conversion, it’s a lot more difficult to do that even in theory—and that’s not even getting into the problem of having a running endnote stream that continues from one file to the next.

It may be easier to approach this problem from a theory level first: how would you do this in Word? Another question I would have is, how necessary is it to have multiple files in the first place? The reading I’ve done on InDesign import hasn’t indicated that is something most people contend with.