Someone’s asked me to make an ebook of their Word manuscript, which has footnotes and endnotes.
I’ve looked at the Scrivener manual for guidance, but it says to use the conversion tools - and I can’t find these conversion tools, and don’t know if I did find them if they’d convert the footnotes and endnotes. Help!
With recent versions of Scrivener, if you import a Word (.doc or .docx) document, then the footnotes and endnotes should come across automatically. If you have problems, though, the best thing to do is to open the document in Word and use File > Save As in Word to save it as an RTF file, and then import the RTF file into Scrivener.
They came across, but when I compile it into a .mobi, the inline notes appear beside the text in square brackets. Is that meant to happen?
That will happen to comments, yes, unless you tick “Remove Comments” in the Footnotes/Comments pane. If you want them to appear as footnotes, then you can convert them in the Format > Convert menu.
Ah, thank you!
And is there any way of distinguishing between footnotes (in a book, at the foot of the page) and endnotes (in a book, at the end of the book, listed chapter by chapter)?
Not for the e-book formats, I’m afraid, no, sorry!
Sorry, just realised I never said thanks for this. Thanks!