Hello!
I’m writing using AMA citations, which requires repeat references to refer to a single footnote number. I know Scrivener will populate footnote numbers at the compiling process, meaning the numbers do not exist prior. How can I link a single footnote to multiple sections such that when Scrivener compiles, all of these sentences will have the same number?
Thank you!
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I have te same issue.
I can’t see an obvious way to do this using Scrivener’s functionality. You can however do it partially if you manually count the footnote you want and enter its label, then use multimarkdown to compile; so this Scrivener doc:
becomes this html:
BUT only some output formats from multimarkdown support this kind of multi-linking, when I tried the same markdown to LibreOffice odt, footnotes became duplicated.
Pandoc cannot use these at all, see Markdown footnotes are duplicated · Issue #1603 · jgm/pandoc · GitHub – but it may be possible to make a filter to manually to a format like Typst (Footnote Function – Typst Documentation) that does support multi-refs to the same footnote easily.
I think the biggest challenge here, in technical terms, is that you mention needing footnotes. Is there any concession for using endnotes instead?
If so, you would have more options—to in essence format your own notes using auto-numbering tools in Scrivener—as endnotes can be more simply organised in one place. Footnotes though, for them to be attached to the bottom of a page during layout, need to be footnotes, and not just text that is formatted to look like them.
Interesting idea Amber, I think this may work for me and will trial it.
Ultimately I want to get to ePub format and I suspect that endotes might be more reliable than comments in formats that do not support pop-ups.
Thanks
FWIW, AmberV’s suggestion is what I did back in the Jurassic era before Scrivener supported footnotes/endnotes. It’s a little tedious, especially if you have a lot of notes, but it does the job.
