[ CC-2019 and 2020 ] The Convert-Endnotes-To-Footnotes Disaster SCOPE: SELECTION with CONTEXT MENU
Hi together,
I'm using the context menu available for text selection to convert endnotes to footnotes by selecting text in the endnote text frame.
The result is not as expected. However it is better than using the dialog in menu Type for converting endnotes to footnotes with scope selection.
What is the issue?
One endnote was converted but not removed.
Two footnote text are missing the first character.
One footnote text has a special character that should not be there.
Style overrides were not transferred.
Footnote references get style overrides of the character they are attached to.
All the important details, also screenshots together with a download link to my test files can be found at InDesign Prerelease or in the following thread at Adobe InDesign Forum:
[ CC-2019 and 2020 ] The Convert-Endnotes-To-Footnotes Disaster SCOPE: SELECTION with CONTEXT MENU
Laubender
https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign/cc-2019-and-2020-the-convert-endnotes-to-footnotes-disaster-scope-selection-with-context-menu/td-p/10936659
Regards,
Uwe Laubender
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Uwe Laubender
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Ariel commented
Hi Uwe,
I voted for this issue, but only half-heartedly. Currently, the convert endnotes to footnotes functionality in InDesign is a script. It should really be implemented as a plugin, I think (it's very slow as a script).
Also, it's only half a solution. The scripting interface for endnotes is very clumsy, as you've noted elsewhere I think, and for an unknown reason doesn't parallel the scripting interface for footnotes, which is what we all would have expected.
So even if this issue is fixed, it's only a plaster covering a more profound issue with endnotes altogether....
Ariel