I’m wondering if there’s a way to have footnotes appear at the bottom of the page where the note is first referenced rather than all together at the end of the book. I’ve not used the footnote feature of Scrivener before and while I can live with the footnotes at the end, I’d prefer them be on the pages where the reference is first found. For example:
“She’d grown up in the small mountain village of Foster Flats[1] where weirdness was pretty much a way of life”
[1] To learn more about the weird happenings around Foster Flat, see the upcoming book, Fantastical Fables of Foster Flat. In the meantime, check out the digital short, Elliot Savant.
It would be great if the note was at the bottom of the page where the line with the [1] is.
I would check in the Footnotes & Comments compile option pane to make sure the Export [X] footnotes as endnotes checkboxes are disabled. And of course, if you do not see those checkboxes at all (or indeed this entire pane), then you are likely using a format that doesn’t have a concept of end-of-page footnotes, or we just merely do not support it for reasons of complexity. You should be seeing them for the standard word processing formats however.
It doesn’t appear for the .mobi format there’s an option to keep the footnote on the same page probably because page lengths varies with ebook formats.
When I go to compile as a PDF for Createspace I’ll look into this for that format.
That’s correct: e-books don’t really have “pages” in the same way that printed books do. Remember that most e-book readers allow the user to change the font size, and therefore the amount of text that will fit on a screen. So it’s not even possible to say how big the page will be at compile time.
You might be able to get away with using the “Proofing” option in the Print Settings compile pane, for PDF. Otherwise PDF itself doesn’t have a concept of footnotes, so we don’t support it for the higher quality setting (you can read the details in that option pane of what all these differences entail).
I am new to Scrivener and I am trying to have footnotes showing at the end of each page they are placed in. I understand this in not possible with PDF compile (btw I wonder why, since they can be at the end of a page in a PDF you export by, say LibreOffice). Fact is I am not able to get this either in a rtf or doc compile. When I disable the “Export inspector foonotes as endnotes” I don get any footnote at all in the compiled rtf or doc.
Can somebody help me?
Thanks in advance
What app are you opening your exported RTF or DOC in? If you’re opening it in TextEdit, that doesn’t support footnotes and will remove them so they won’t be visible if you subsequently open the file in another word processor.
Also, DOC export is actually RTF with a changed creator code — all legal — and I don’t know if Pages will open it.
I export to RTF, use Nisus Writer Pro, and footnotes and endnotes are no problem at all. Word, LibreOffice/OpenOffice should handle them without trouble too. If you want to use Pages, try exporting to DOCX rather than DOC.
