#120 Mistaken Footnote Anchors

[Richard Tonsing]

The Footnote Fixup tool regards proper out of line markup as footnote anchors.

E.g. both of the following are mistaken as footnote anchors and will be subject to renumbering as well as flagged as out of sequence errors:

/*[8]
Some Text[7]
*/

and also

/#[8]
Some Text[8]
#/

[Footnote 7: A footnote.]

[Footnote 8: A footnote.]

The footnote tool should ignore any apparent anchors which are preceded by a forward slash and either an asterisk or a number sign.

Steps:
Menu=>Fixup=>Footnote Fixup...
Click First Pass
Click Reindex

Rick

[Richard Tonsing]

Ah, the formatting is messed up in my example. Here's another try:

/*[8]
Some Text[7]
*/

/#[8]
Some Text[8]
#/

[Footnote 7: A footnote.]

[Footnote 8: A footnote.]

[hannne]

I edited the original post to fix the broken markup.

If I make a sample file containing the text from your example, I can't reproduce the problem. The footnote anchors get identified and reindexed correctly. Can you please post a file?

[Richard Tonsing]

I recall this one as it was very frustrating. I had to change all the out of line markup [8] to something like [*8].

Anyway I cannot recreate this either. As I no longer have the 2014 file please close.