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Styleref in headers of pages displaying endnotes
I am writing an academic book with endnotes. I want the headers of the pages
where the endnotes appear to have headers like the following: [177] Notes for pages 55-57 Note for page 88 [183] To achieve this result, I have written and tested a macro that does the following: 1. Puts a bookmark just before every endnote.reference in the main text. 2. Inserts a text integer equal to the page number cross-reference to each bookmark at the start of each endnote.range (e.g. "(p. 4) "). The integers are all marked with a character style "special." 3. Copies each the endnote.index and endnote.range in order as regular text to a new file. 4. Closes the original file without saving changes. I can then change the starting page number of the new file and use If and Styleref fields in the headers (first, even, and odd) to pick up the first and last stylized integers on each page and construct the proper header text. I am unhappy with this solution for three reasons: 1. If the original file is changed in any way that alters pagination or endnote count, the macro must be run again. 2. The body of the endnote must contain the cross-reference information since hiding it also hides the Styleref field result. 3. The pagination of the new file must be adjusted manually because (a) the explicit cross-references occasionally throw off the line breaks, and (b) Word apparently inserts an undocumented one or two points before and/or after each paragraph in endnote text when the interface displays it. I am afraid my little kludge (or some variation on it) is the only way around this problem. Does anyone know a better way? If so, what is it? -- J. M. Unger East Asian Langs & Lits Ohio State |
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Styleref in headers of pages displaying endnotes
The short answer here is that what you're tying to do is more complicated
than the result can justify. As you've found it's a sh*t-load of work and renders the document more-or-less unmaintainable; and it doesn't really help the reader very much anyway. On the contrary, indeed: people have to look up your endnotes by number anyway; using the page number as a second reference gives the reader *more* work to do. .... unless you have dozens of notes for every page of the body, in which case your editor should rap your knuckles. "Philologist" wrote in message ... I am writing an academic book with endnotes. I want the headers of the pages where the endnotes appear to have headers like the following: [177] Notes for pages 55-57 Note for page 88 [183] To achieve this result, I have written and tested a macro that does the following: 1. Puts a bookmark just before every endnote.reference in the main text. 2. Inserts a text integer equal to the page number cross-reference to each bookmark at the start of each endnote.range (e.g. "(p. 4) "). The integers are all marked with a character style "special." 3. Copies each the endnote.index and endnote.range in order as regular text to a new file. 4. Closes the original file without saving changes. I can then change the starting page number of the new file and use If and Styleref fields in the headers (first, even, and odd) to pick up the first and last stylized integers on each page and construct the proper header text. I am unhappy with this solution for three reasons: 1. If the original file is changed in any way that alters pagination or endnote count, the macro must be run again. 2. The body of the endnote must contain the cross-reference information since hiding it also hides the Styleref field result. 3. The pagination of the new file must be adjusted manually because (a) the explicit cross-references occasionally throw off the line breaks, and (b) Word apparently inserts an undocumented one or two points before and/or after each paragraph in endnote text when the interface displays it. I am afraid my little kludge (or some variation on it) is the only way around this problem. Does anyone know a better way? If so, what is it? -- J. M. Unger East Asian Langs & Lits Ohio State |
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Styleref in headers of pages displaying endnotes
Personally, I prefer footnotes to endnotes; however, in this case, there are
two reasons that endnotes cannot be avoided: 1. The notes are fairly numerous and quite long (not just citations). This is an academic monograph, and the discussion must be carried out on two levels. 2. It is usual to set footnotes a one or two points smaller than main text, whereas endnotes can be set in the same size. Let me also point out that, if I were to retreat to headers like [177] Notes 7-8 and so on, the same problem would arise. The problem is that a Styleref field in a header for the pages where endnotes are displayed does not scan anything in the body of endnotes. Furthermore, real endnotes cannot be divided into sections, so you can't even change headers "by hand" the hard way. (By the way, the original document is easily maintained because the macro does nothing permanent to it. That isn't the problem.) Since running headers of the kind I want are something real publishers do all the time, I am rather amazed that Word seems incapable of producing them in any simple way. But I would be happy to stand corrected by someone on that score! -- J. M. Unger East Asian Langs & Lits Ohio State "Jezebel" wrote: The short answer here is that what you're tying to do is more complicated than the result can justify. As you've found it's a sh*t-load of work and renders the document more-or-less unmaintainable; and it doesn't really help the reader very much anyway. On the contrary, indeed: people have to look up your endnotes by number anyway; using the page number as a second reference gives the reader *more* work to do. .... unless you have dozens of notes for every page of the body, in which case your editor should rap your knuckles. |
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