We cover this topic thoroughly in chapter 29 of Book Design Made Simple. The endnote solution is by far the easiest one if you are not using the automatic InDesign footnotes feature.
There are three basic ways: Use endnotesĪre your footnotes boring? Would general readers have a better experience if they didn’t have to see them on nearly every page? If so, consider putting the notes at the end of each chapter or at the end of the book. And that’s great! But what if you compiled your footnotes in a separate Word document or didn’t use the automatic footnote feature in Word or InDesign?īefore Word and InDesign added their automatic footnote features, and well before Fiona and I met each other, we both invented a way-interestingly, the same way-to lay out InDesign footnotes manually for print books. In this blog post, I’ll explain the layout method that we both used-it still works perfectly.īefore you start typesetting your footnotes, you need to decide how to handle them. If your book has footnotes, you’re probably using automatic InDesign footnotes in your layout.
