Hi there, I’ve worked out how to add a cross-reference into my text, but I’m having a little trouble with the numbering upon export. For example, I am trying to have a cross-reference from one footnote to another, and it worked fine when I tested it with only two notes (from one to the other). But then I added another note before the first one (the one to be referenced), and upon export, the cross-reference was still for “footnote 1” even though it was now “footnote 2”. I’m not sure if that was clear or not, but maybe someone has come across this problem and could offer some help. Thanks so much.
Daniel
… to further refine my question: how do I get the auto-numbering feature to take the number of the referenced footnote (no matter where it comes in my writing), rather than the number of cross-references I have used?
You need to use more complicated tags than the basic auto-number tags, for this - the basic auto-number tags are just incremented as they are encountered in the draft. See the FAQ in the Help file - the second item is about cross referencing.
Hope that helps.
Best,
Keith
Hi Keith, thanks so much for your reply. I was not clear enough on my first two tries, so I’ll try again. I found the more complicated section you were referring to in the Scrivener Help, but I still can’t get it to work. I’ll attach two screenshots—one of the Scrivener doc, and the other of my draft exported opened up in my word processor (Mellel). I think it will be clearer what I’m asking once you see the shots.
Here’s the first:
Here’s the second:
I am trying to link the cross-references with specific footnotes, and would like to have the cross-references adjust with the changing number of the footnotes. Rather, I think the auto-number feature within cross-references only counts the number of references. Does that help? Again, thanks for your time.
Daniel
Oh, I see what you mean. No, sorry, there’s no way of doing that currently. Scrivener knows nothing about the footnote numbers at any stage - they are handled by the RTF export.
Best,
Keith
Would there be any possible way of having the RTF export handling that in the future (in much the same way it seems to handle footnote numbers)? It should be obvious by this point—but just in case—I don’t really understand at all what it would take to do what I’m asking, but I can ask anyway, I guess. Thanks for your help, Keith.
I don’t think so… Is it possible to do this in RTF in general? The trouble is that even at the RTF stage, the syntax is basically:
Hello {\footnote This is a footnote}The actual numbering isn’t present in RTF but only in the word processor that displays it (Word etc). So, I’m really not sure how you would go about cross-referencing a number that does not yet exist…
Best,
Keith