Footnote Out of Sequence

[Pinkham, Jim]

Hi, Peter --

Thanks for taking this on. The sequence is 1,2,2,1. The first three are
fine. The second 2 is indeed accomplished by the cross-reference
technique. The only thing I had expected, based on the marked-up manual
I'm revising, was that the final footnote would be a 3, not a 1. Based
on Art's comment, the 1 is apparently what should be expected because it
is a new table. If there's another way to get to 3 for the final note,
in addition to the approach Art suggested, I'd be interested to learn
about it and consider going that route.

Regards,
Jim 

-----Original Message-----
From: knowhowpro at gmail.com [mailto:knowhowpro at gmail.com] On Behalf Of
Peter Gold
Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 12:15 PM
To: Art Campbell
Cc: Pinkham, Jim; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: Footnote Out of Sequence


 On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Pinkham, Jim <Jim.Pinkham at voith.com>
wrote:
>> I have a series of footnotes associated with tables on the same page.
>> The first and second are normal. The third references the same 
>> footnote as the second. Because the precedent is not to add an 
>> identical footnote and call it 3, this is accomplished by a 
>> cross-reference to the third footnote. However, the next footnote 
>> should be footnote 3, and the numbering instead reverts to 1. My 
>> fiddling with Format - Document - Numbering and the footnote tab is,
thus far, to no avail.
>>
>> Here's what my section of this page looks like:
>>
>> http://www.yourfilelink.com/get.php?fid=484457. (Beware the big 
>> download button and look instead for the small "Proceed to file
download page"
>> just above it.)
>> What to do?
>>
>> Jim
>>
>> BTW, I'm also open to suggestions for a better way to share a file 
>> but not attach it.
>> _______________________________________________

Hi, Jim:

If I understand your situation correctly, I believe multiple references
to the same footnote should use the same reference number in the main
text or table cell text.

Using this model, your second reference to footnote 2 should also
display 2, so you may want to change your approach and use the
cross-reference technique to capture the number 2 from the second
footnote, rather than faking an increment to 3.

If a new footnote reference is inserted before footnote 1 or 2, they'll
increment correctly; the cross-reference to multiple instances of 2 may
require a cross-reference update action, but otherwise, as any
cross-reference, these are self-maintaining.

HTH

Regards,

Peter
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