I am having issues with footnotes font/size when compiling to Word : the footnotes are automatically converted to Courier 12 (although I have unchecked “Override font” and checked “Indent footnotes and endnotes to match text” in the Compile Format Designer - and also unchecked “Override text and notes formatting” in the “Section Layouts” of the Compilfe Format Designer).
I have found other topics with this problem but they all offer the aboved-mentionned solution which does not work for me… Any ideas on how to fix this ?
In Word, does your template have a style which is assigned to Footnotes and is this style attached to the items in the document which are footnotes? If so, simple to change the font in the style?
Thank you for your reply !
Changing the font in the styles in Word would be a bit painful because I would like footnotes to be in the same size as the text, which sometimes varies, so I would have to manually apply styles on Word which is what I am trying to avoid.
Well, I guess it is what is is… a lot of work in Word since you cannot rely on using Word Styles. Others may be able to chip in here on the switches in Scrivener to do this hard formatting into the Word DOCX (or RTF) file. i have never tried to do this complex manual formatting before.
Thank you for your reply, but I am talking about the reference (= the numbers) to the footnote in the body of the text, not the font of the footnote itself (sorry) !
Dear community,
I have been trying to change the font of the footnote holder in my format. I’ve written my text in Scrivener with Courier and I wish to compile to a document with a different font. I was able to do that, but the footnote holders show up in the old Courier font. Where can I change that? Thanks for your suggestions!
Another thing that might be related: how can I change the distance between lines in footnotes independently from the main text. I have 1.4x in main text, and would like 1.1 in footnote text
I’ve merged your query with the existing bug report on it. The setting to override the footnote font should of course also impact the footnote marker at the bottom of the page.
As for the rest though, it’s best to think of Scrivener as doing the hard work of making these footnotes or endnotes functional. Detailing and design matters are outside of its scope, and must be done in post with a word processor or desktop publishing tool. This is typically made easy with templates and stylesheets, or something analogous to that.
First off, what do you mean by “Footnote holders”? Do you mean Inspector footnotes in Scrivener or Inline footnote bubbles; or do you mean the footnotes after compile? If you mean either of the Scrivener footnotes, those are set in File > Options > Editing > Formmatting. I’m a Mac-user, so this screenshot is the Mac version, so the layout may be different in Windows.
When it comes to footnotes after compiling, Scrivener gives them the Normal style in the compile process, so if you need to change anything like font size or line spacing you need to make the changes in your word processor after you have compiled.
This means that if your target is PDF, you need to compile to RTF/DOCX open it in Word/LibreOffice/… make the changes and print to PDF. Being a Mac user who doesn’t use Word or LibreOffice, I have to leave it to others to help you further with that if necessary.
As an aside, I believe RTF is safer than DOCX in respect of footnotes from Scrivener on Windows (I remember reading various threads pertaining to that); it is Scrivener’s native format so minimal work is done by compile; Word is the best RTF-DOCX converter there is; LibreOffice reads RTF without problem.
Thank you all for your replies. If I understand you correctly, it doesn’t matter what font you choose for the main text, the superscript footnotes (reference marker?) at the end of the line always appear in Courier 12 when compiling to Word? With footnote holder I mean the number that appears in superscript where you place the footnote, I guess it is called reference marker.e
Thanks,
Carine
Ah, I found a solution in Word: select the reference marker and press Ctrl+Shift+s and a dialogue window opens where you can change the standard font for reference markers in the whole document. Hurrah!
It seems to be that is what happens in Word, yes. I’ve noticed a different font in LibreOffice, but that could be a case of it using a fallback font.
Thanks for posting the fix for others! I don’t have Word, so I can only suggest things in a vague way for it.
With LibreOffice there is a footnotes setup area in the Tools menu where you can define which document styles to use for the different elements of a footnote or endnote, and then you can modify the stylesheet to change fonts, sizes, line-spacing, etc.
Hello,
Thank you for your messages
Would you be kind enough to send a screenshot of the dialogue window ? I did not manage to change the other reference markers.
