![]() ![]() To accommodate these relatively small changes which would happen somewhat frequently, the binders were helpful in that the company which produced the software would send punched pages with only the changes and additions, along with instructions concerning where to insert or replace the pages when updating from the prior version. WORD FOOTNOTE ON ONE PAGE ONLY MANUALSThese manuals often had hundreds of pages, and small changes were required between releases. Something to chew on: manuals for older computer platforms (particularly mainframes, as well as Multics and other multi-user environments) often came as punched sheets in large 3-ring binders. In a new edition, text is added, text is removed, and text is moved. The first edition is not a sacrosanct edition! ![]() That is, if I have an existing footnote - call it 2, and I have another place in the text where I would want a footnote with the same text for footnote or endnote 2, it would be nice to insert another reference to footnote 2 in the text rather than adding another distinct footnote - but not just as superscripted text, so that if it is not locked and I insert another footnote before the first instance of footnote 2, both instances would be renumbered to 3. Here is another obscure situation to consider: multiple instances of the same footnote. When it comes time for the 3rd edition, you could do a "lock all" to prevent the new 2nd edition footnotes from changing. Newly added footnotes would be created unlocked, so they could still adjust dynamically as the content was modified, but leaving the existing ones untouched. For example, if I had footnotes from 1 to 10 and locked them, then deleted a portion of the text containing footnote 5, then if I were to insert another footnote between footnote 4 and where footnote 5 used to be, I would get 4bis (or other selected numbering scheme - 4.1, 4a, whatever) instead of 5 being reused similarly if I inserted between where 5 used to be and where 6 is, I would get 5bis (5.1, 5a. ![]() If a section of a story was deleted which contained a locked footnote or endnote, it could be replaced with an invisible marker which represented the still-locked (now invisible) footnote or endnote to ensure it was not reused later. A "lock all" / "unlock all" feature would then change the "locked" property of all footnotes/endnotes that existed at that time (possibly within a selection or a story). One way I could see achieving this would be to add a "locked" property to each footnote/endnote that locked the reference to that footnote or endnote so that it would never change. This may be a relatively rare use case, but it is still a very interesting one to consider, and finally gives us something other than the pointless begging for the feature (which we have been told repeatedly is coming) to discuss. (that's because in 2nd edition a new footnote was added and it must not break old references), so I wish Publisher supports that in some way. Right now I'm working on a document which has following numbering of footnotes. ![]()
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