Referencing Footnotes and Pages

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I am drawing a non-fiction document with endnotes. I want to be able to reference other pages and notes from within later notes. For instance:

  • See infra, note xxx

  • See supra, pages xxx

Is there a way to place a character or some sort of marker at those locations and have the number automatically filled in when Scrivener compiles the document?

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Hi seadog,

For those of us that have made the leap into the abyss and are using Scrivener with LaTeX (an excellent amalgam), a good reference for Labels and Cross-referencing can be found at: LaTeX/Labels and Cross-referencing.

Hope this can be of some help,
scrive
:thinking:

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Hmmm . . . that may be beyond my capabilities, but I’ll look into it. Thaks for the tip!

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Hi

A good place to start LaTeX with Scrivener is the General Non-Fiction (LaTeX) Project Templates:

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There is no doubt about it, LaTeX can be a challenge. If Scrivener has the capability you need without having to include LaTeX, it will simplify the effort needed to write what you need to.

I’ve been working with Scrivener + LaTeX for two years, and I’m still on a steep learning curve, albeit less steep than when I started. For me, Scrivener + LaTeX is a multiyear investment that has paid off handsomely, but that formula doesn’t fit everyone’s needs, nor their time budget.

Hope this helps,
scrive
:thinking:

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I suspect the figure number feature can be jiggered to do what you want, without LaTeX.

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That would be nice. If I figure out how to do so, I’ll post my findings here.

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Did anyone ever figure this out? It’s kind of a very important feature and doesn’t seem in principle so difficult: I just want to insert inline in my main text a reference to a footnote number (which changes on being edited/compiled later). To be clear, e.g., “as explained above in footnote [35]” and have the [35] update according to any edits.

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