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Footnote layout options
The following options appear in the Layout section of the Footnote Options dialog box:
Minimum Space Before First Footnote This option determines the minimum amount of space between the bottom
of the column and the first footnote line. You cannot use a negative value. Any Space Before setting in the footnote
paragraph is ignored.
Space Between Footnotes This option determines the distance between the last paragraph of one footnote and the
first paragraph of the next footnote in a column. You cannot use a negative value. The Space Before/Space After
values in a footnote’s paragraph apply only if the footnote includes multiple paragraphs.
First Baseline Offset This option determines the distance between the start of the footnote area (where the footnote
divider appears by default) and the first line of footnote text.
For information on the First Baseline options, see “First baseline offset options” on page 127.
Place End of Story Footnotes at Bottom of Text Select this option if you want the last column’s footnotes to appear
just below the text in the last frame of the story. If this option is not selected, any footnote in the last frame of the
story appears at the bottom of the column.
Allow Split Footnotes Select this option if you want footnotes to break across a column when the footnote exceeds
the amount of space available for it in that column. If splitting is not allowed, the line containing the footnote
reference number moves to the next column, or the text becomes overset.
Footnote split across column.
If Allow Split Footnotes is turned on, you can still prevent an individual footnote from splitting by placing the
insertion point in the footnote text, choosing Keep Options from the Paragraph panel menu, and selecting the Keep
Lines Together and All Lines In Paragraph options. If the footnote contains multiple paragraphs, use the Keep With Next
X Lines option in the first paragraph of the footnote text. You can choose Type > Insert Break Character > Column Break
to control where the footnote is split.
Rule Above Specify the location and appearance of the footnote divider line that appears above the footnote text and
the divider line that appears above any footnote text continued in a separate frame. The options you select apply to
either the First Footnote in Column or Continued Footnotes, whichever is selected in the menu. These options are
similar to those that appear when you specify a paragraph rule. If you don’t want a rule to appear, deselect Rule On.
Delete footnotes
❖ To delete a footnote, select the footnote reference number that appears in text, and then press Backspace or Delete.
If you delete only the footnote text, the footnote reference number and footnote structure remain.