Determine the appearance of note text, Endnotes – Nisus Writer Pro User Manual
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Edit a custom symbol that marks footnotes and or endnotes
You can change the symbol you have used at any time
1. Select the note reference(s) in the body of the document.
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Use non-contiguous selection to select a range of text and affect number of notes at once.
2. Click and hold your mouse or trackpad on the Footnote tag on the Statusbar.
3. Choose Edit Custom Note Reference… from the pop-up menu as illustrated in Figure 216
4. Enter (type or paste) an asterisk or any other character you wish to use in the pane that
appears as illustrated in Figure 217.
5. Click OK.
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The command Edit Custom Note Reference… is also available from the menu Format > Note
Style.
Determine the appearance of note text
The appearance of note text is controlled by Styles.
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You modify the note text style the same way you modify any other Style as explained in “Modify
Figure 218
The Footnote area of the Style Sheet in its shipped state
In this portion of the Style Sheet view, you can control a wide variety of options including:
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the style on which the notes text are “Based on”;
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the keyboard Shortcut used to apply the style;
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the Place where the note appears…
if the notes are endnotes you can choose between
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End of Document
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End of Section
if they are footnotes your only choice is
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Bottom of Page;
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the notes can appear One Note Per Line, or, if there is room, they can “cluster”;
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if the notes are long and their text extends beyond the page on which the reference
appears, you can determine their Multi-page Threshold, that is the minimum number of
points and/or lines that the notes must contain before they can split between pages;
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the Starting Number that the sequence of notes begins at;