Hi,
I want to reference footnotes in my text and in other footnotes. Such as: “For more information regarding this, see footnote 7”. And have the numbers update to reflect the new numbers when the numbers change because of editing.
This must be possible in some way. I’ve search all over for this functionality, but can’t find it. Can anybody help?
We don’t have a way of doing that… I’m not even sure if RTF can do that at all. The way a footnote looks in RTF is that the content of the footnote is stored right in the text itself where the marker will appear (and so in that way it is much like our inline footnote feature, sans the fancy bubble formatting of course). This is just done with unnumered code, like {\footnote Here is what is printed at the bottom}. So, as you can see, there isn’t any way to hook into that from an external piece of text that would specify that footnote from all the rest. It is only when you open this file in a word processor that they are numbered dynamically in the order these codes are detected on each page.
You can assign names to numbered elements using one of the named auto-numbering streams: <$n:itemname>. That’s how Scrivener handles things like figure and table numbering. But footnotes are their own stream and don’t allow that kind of direct user control over numbering.
Katherine
Hi, I’m new to the forum, have been using Scrivener for quite some time and LOVING it!
I need help with the following challenge, which may be perhaps somewhat a-typical, I’ve tried to look for information on it in this forum, on the web, and in various tutorials, and …no joy 
Here is the problem: I am writing a book in which I need to use Footnotes (actually these are endnotes that will appear at the end of the document), but where the placeholder for these is NOT AUTO-NUMBERED, but rather uses my own placeholders. For example a placeholder may be ‘21,22’ (without the brackets), or ‘23’ or ‘39-45’, etc. Furthermore, these placeholders will be unique within a chapter, but not unique across the entire book, i.e. the placeholder ‘23’ will exist once in each of many chapters.
I know if sounds fussy - but it is imperative that it be done this way.
I know that I can create links that do this, but it has to be through footnotes, because the point is to have this work in Kindle, where footnotes on Paperwhite and Voyage automatically appear as popups.
Can anyone help me, or point me in the right direction? Many thanks! Isaac.
Hi, I’m new to the forum, have been using Scrivener for quite some time and LOVING it!
I need help with the following challenge, which may be perhaps somewhat a-typical, I’ve tried to look for information on it in this forum, on the web, and in various tutorials, and …no joy 
Here is the problem: I am writing a book in which I need to use Footnotes (actually these are endnotes that will appear at the end of the document), but where the placeholder for these is NOT AUTO-NUMBERED, but rather uses my own placeholders. For example a placeholder may be ‘21,22’ (without the brackets), or ‘23’ or ‘39-45’, etc. Furthermore, these placeholders will be unique within a chapter, but not unique across the entire book, i.e. the placeholder ‘23’ will exist once in each of many chapters.
I know if sounds fussy - but it is imperative that it be done this way.
I know that I can create links that do this, but it has to be through footnotes, because the point is to have this work in Kindle, where footnotes on Paperwhite and Voyage automatically appear as popups.
Can anyone help me, or point me in the right direction? Many thanks! Isaac.
I’m afraid this is not possible in Scrivener. To accomplish this, you would need to be able to set a custom marker for each note, but Scrivener’s options can only be applied to footnotes en masse.
Katherine