Sorry if this is a stupid question, but how does one change the footnote style in Compile Draft? It currently comes out a superscripted lowercase Roman, and I need it to be superscripted Arabic. Also, as a related question, is there any way to cause the footnotes to be inserted somewhere other than at the end, after a horizontal rule? For example, at ? Finally, I am very intrigued by the potential of markers in the text of the form . I think that fuller exploitation of this could add considerably to the usefulness of Scrivener.
There is no way to determine the style of footnote marker - this is left to the word processor. Scrivener just marks out the text as footnotes in the RTF, and the word processor you import into can be used to alter the format (Scrivener isn’t intended to do everything - a word processor will be required for specialist formatting after the first draft is written in Scrivener).
Not quite sure what you mean about inserting footnotes at . If you mean printing from within Scrivener, no, that is fairly basic and only does endnotes. You can choose to export as footnotes or endnotes, though.
Actually, after looking into it further, it turns out that if a
\aftnnar \ftnnar
control is placed at the top of the RTF output file (not sure if both are needed), just after the existing
\fet2 \ftnbj
commands, the foot/end notes are marked (in Word) with superscripted Arabic numerals, which is what I prefer. There are a number of other possibilities as well: upper and lowercase Roman, upper and lowercase letters, Korean numbering… and there are parallel commands for footnotes versus endnotes.
To explain what I meant about the “” mark, in the format I’m working with, there are several sections of the manuscript (tables and figures) that follow the “Footnotes” section, so it would be nice to mark a certain spot before the end of the manuscript where they should be inserted during compilation. After looking into this a bit more, I think that in order to do this correctly in RTF, the endnotes would have to be handled as ordinary paragraphs and inserted in the right spot programmatically (or manually, which is what I’ll probably end up doing).
Just a brief follow-up. It turns out that in APA6 format, the style I’m working with, footnotes can now be placed at the bottom of the page! The old standard in APA1-5, of a “Footnotes” page toward the end of the file, is still supported as an option, but putting them at the bottom of the page now seems to be preferred. So, with the small hack above to fix the style, and with “Include footnotes as footnotes” enabled, Scrivener outputs footnotes perfectly for APA6 in RTF exports.
Following your post, I’m looking at allowing the user to choose the style of footnotes or endnotes for 2.0. It should be fairly straightforward to add.
I would like the style select option on “compile draft.” RIght now Scrivener is sending the footnotes in my draft to Word as the “Normal” style. I need to reformat all of the footnotes.
Any formatting options you could put into Scrivener 2.0 would be a great. I enjoy using Scrivener. I can do many things that Word cannot do. However, once I send the draft to Word, I have A LOT of formatting to do.