So, first, I’m pretty new to using Scrivener, but I really like it so far.
Anyway, I’m trying to translate a book. The book has a good amount of footnotes. I’d also like to have my own endnotes for explanations, as making footnotes for myself would interrupt the book, although I’d probably have at least very sparse translator’s notes.
But I’d also like to have these all in the inspector somehow. All I know of is that you can write inline footnotes and inspector footnotes and choose to compile one or the other as endnotes, which would get this effect, but having either my endnotes or the author’s footnotes in the text would make it hard to read and edit, and it would be ugly with how long they can be sometimes.
So, is there a way to have it both ways, where both footnotes and endnotes can be distinguished through the inspector somehow? That would be pretty helpful.
Apparently, in older versions of of Scrivener, you could do compile-time hacks converting inspector footnotes that matched a certain regex into inline footnotes and then compiling inline footnotes as endnotes, but it seems like this doesn’t work anymore. At least that’s as far as I know. I’m using 3.1.6 on Windows.
(Also, I have to say to that it’s really remarkable how much this software resembles what I was envisioning as an ideal editor. I was thinking to myself that there should be a tree-like way of writing long documents, with ways to attach notes and metadata at every level, just before learning about Scrivener.)