[Framers] Does new FrameMaker actually split footnotes across pages?

[Peter Gold]

Argh... Ghosts and legacies of last-century engineering design. InDesign's
composition engine was born smart, and kept evolving. ID overall has gotten
closer and closer to FM technical authoring and book tool set.

But, the cost of migrating individual authors, tech-publishing departments,
and large legacy inventories, far outweigh most gains in convenience,
features, and typographic improvements.

One glimmer of possibly migrating comes from FM's new subscription model,
which obviates the cost of purchasing new standalone licenses.


On Wed, Jun 9, 2021, 4:38 PM Graeme R Forbes <graeme.forbes at colorado.edu>
wrote:

> Klause Daube wrote: “Fact is:
> FM 16...just moves the whole note to be on the same page as the reference
> number, leaving a big ugly gap on the page.”
>
> And it’s 2021. Extraordinary. It’s not as if Adobe doesn’t employ people
> who know how to do footnotes — they work fine in InDesign. So I guess that
> in FM you are still stuck with the early 90's technique of manually
> splitting using an anchored frame for the overflow.
>
> Graeme Forbes
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