Footnote markers are superscript but not reduced in size - how to change

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Hi all,

The footnote markers in my text are superscripted, but they’re not reduced in size and have the same height as the body text, which distorts the line spacing. Is there a way to control the font or size of footnote markers in Scrivener? I can’t find anything on this - but that’s probably on me.

thanks,

Joshua

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Are you talking about the footnote markers in the Scrivener editor, or about the footnote markers after compiling?

  • If the former, what have you set as your footmote marker?
  • If the latter, what are you compiling to?

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Mark

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Thanks for replying Mark,

I am talking about the footnote markers after compiling, and I am compiling to pdf!

thanks

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I thought that was the case. The thing is Scrivener’s compile to PDF was only set up for quick proof-reading purposes; it was not designed to output publishable PDFs. For that, you really need to compile to RTF/DOCX and open it in your word processor of choice, where you can set things like how footnote markers and the footnotes themselves are displayed, and then Print/Export to PDF from there.

The only alternative for direct to publishable PDFs is using one of the Markdown plus Pandoc/Quarto/LaTeX/Typst routes.

Since I retired, my needs are basically to produce PDFs, so I am in the process of producing a couple of direct Scrivener to Typst templates, which I will post here. I have quite a ways to go with them yet!

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Mark

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This is very helpful; I had not tried that route, but it indeed works.

Thanks for illuminating me.

Joshua

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My pleasure!

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Mark