Annotations

Inkwell keeps two independent families of notes. The first is the ordinary one covered in Footnotes/Endnotes. The second is called annotations, and it is numbered, placed, and styled entirely separately.

This is what scholarly editions need. It lets you run, say, author's notes at the foot of the page while textual or editorial notes collect at the back of the book, without the two sequences interfering with each other.

Turning a note into an annotation

Annotations are not inserted with a separate button. Create the note as usual with Insert Footnote , then click the note's marker — the small number or symbol in the text. Clicking it moves the note between the two families; click again to move it back.

Because the two families are numbered separately, a note will change its number as it switches sides.

The annotations section

To make annotations appear in the built book, add the section: Insert → Annotations in the chapter list. It works exactly like the Notes section — Inkwell fills it in and keeps it up to date.

The Annotations entry in the chapter list also gives you a single page listing every annotation in the book, grouped by chapter, which is a convenient way to read through them all. Each entry has a jump button that takes you to the place in the text it belongs to.

Settings

Project Settings → Annotations carries the same controls as Notes, applied to this family only:

• Placement — Footnote (at the bottom of the page), Chapter Endnote (collected at the end of each chapter), or Book Endnote (collected at the back of the book). This is set for annotations alone: annotations start at the bottom of the page and stay there when you move the ordinary notes elsewhere. To collect them at the back of the book, choose Book Endnote here, which adds the Annotations section for you.
• Marker — the numbering scheme, plus Marker Size and Marker Baseline for how the marker sits against the surrounding text.
• Name — what the section is called in the built book.
• Layout of the note text itself: Clearance, Gap, Indent, and Font Size.

Setting the two families to different placements and different marker schemes — numbers for one, symbols for the other — is what makes them readable side by side.