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  Footnotes and Endnotes with InDesign…

  2728 readersReceived an email today in which the following question was asked: “Is there an InDesign add-on that you know of that a) can take static endnotes and transform them to dynamic (i.e. linked) footnotes and b) can change static endnotes to dynamic...

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• Style Group Names to CSS prefix

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  Integrating footnotes and endnotes in digital texts

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• Open Office, Regular Expressions and eBooks

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  Liz Castro’s Using InDesign to adapt plain text to ePUB

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