Footnotes/Endnotes

To enter a footnote or endnote, place your cursor where you want to add the footnote and click on the Insert Footnote icon. A box will pop up. Put your cursor inside the box and type your footnote, then click anywhere outside the box to insert your footnote.

Inkwell automatically adds the numbering and reorders any other footnotes if applicable.

A note holds text and quotations, not figures. An image inserted into a note goes in as an inline image, sized with the text, rather than a captioned figure.

To edit a footnote, click on the footnote number in the body text. The pop-up editing window will appear. Make your changes inside the text box.

If you would rather see your notes as you write instead of one at a time, turn on Inline Notes in the Tools menu. Every note's text is then shown in the chapter, in a card in a break under the paragraph its number sits in — the same way a comment is shown — and you edit it there. If a quotation, a list or a display equation interrupts that paragraph, the card waits until the paragraph has finished, after the text that carries on beyond it. In this mode clicking a note number does not open the pop-up box, since the note's text is already in front of you. Press Escape to put your cursor back in the body text. The setting is yours rather than the project's, so it follows you between books and your collaborators are unaffected.

To move a footnote, drag its number to the new place in the text and let go. The note's text, and any comments on it, go with it, and the notes are renumbered to match.

To delete a footnote altogether, place your cursor in the body text immediately before the footnote number. Use your delete key to delete the footnote number reference. Likewise, you can place your cursor immediately after the footnote reference number and use your backspace key to delete the footnote.

Two footnotes can sit at the same place in the text: insert a second one right next to an existing footnote and you get two numbers, not one merged note. Inkwell separates the numbers with a comma so they do not read as a single number. If you would rather separate them yourself — with a semicolon, or a comma and a space — type that punctuation between the two numbers and it stays where you put it, and Inkwell adds nothing of its own.

To access Project Settings for Footnotes/Endnotes, click on Notes. Here you can choose:

• Placement: Where footnotes are placed, including three options:
  • Footnote: at the bottom of the page
  • Chapter Endnote: at the end of the chapter
  • Book Endnote: In a separate section or chapter at the end of the book or article
• Numbered By: Numbering can restart with each chapter, or continue through the entire book
• Numbering: Displays the numbering format, which includes:
  • Numeric (1)
  • Alphabetic (a)
  • Roman Lowercase (i)
  • Roman Uppercase (I)
  • Greek (α)
  • Star and Dagger (*)
  • English Words (One)
• Name: Title of your choosing for an Endnotes section.
• Indent: Amount of whitespace indenting each footnote
• Body Indent: Amount of whitespace between the footnote number and the footnote text
• Spacing: Amount of line spacing between footnotes
• Top and Bottom Margin: Amount of extra whitespace before and after the footnote section
• Marker Size and Marker Baseline: The size of the reference marker and how it sits against the surrounding text

The Format section provides the same settings as a paragraph and determines the format of the content of the footnote.

When Placement is Footnote, a Paragraph section appears with the same typography controls an ordinary paragraph style has — Line Height included, so you can set the notes looser or tighter than the body text without touching the body text.

How endnote numbers are laid out

With Placement set to Chapter Endnote or Book Endnote, the Layout section adds two settings that decide where the number sits relative to the note.

Number Style picks the shape:

• Column — the number sits in a slot of its own and the note text lines up in a column beside it, with every note's text starting at the same place.
• Run-in — there is no slot. The first line is indented like a body paragraph, the number runs straight into the text, and the following lines return to the left margin. This is the layout the Chicago Manual of Style specifies for endnotes.

Number Width sets how wide that slot is, and applies to Column only. It is a fixed measure that you choose, rather than something Inkwell works out from the numbers themselves — which matters most with Roman numerals, where a chapter that reaches xxxviii has far wider numbers than one that stops at viii. A number too wide for its slot reaches back into the indent rather than pushing the note text across, so the text column stays put throughout the section.

If you would rather not think about the width at all, choose Run-in: with no slot, there is nothing to size.

Pasting notes from Word

Copying a passage out of Word and pasting it into a chapter brings its footnotes and endnotes with it: each one arrives as an Inkwell footnote attached to the same place in the sentence, numbered by Inkwell rather than by Word. Endnotes come in as footnotes too — where a note is printed is a project setting in Inkwell, not something each note carries, so set the placement you want under Notes in Project Settings.

Notes typed by hand as superscript numbers, rather than made with Word's footnote feature, paste as ordinary text; Inkwell has no way to tell them apart from the rest of the sentence.

Endnotes

There is no difference in the way that endnotes are inserted into a book or article. An Open dropdown always sits at the bottom of the Chapters list, next to Insert, with a Notes item in it. Click it for a single page listing every footnote in the book, however it is placed, with a jump button that takes you to the place in the text it belongs to and an editor to change it right there.

Navigate to the Chapters view along the left menu bar.

Opening Notes this way is only for reviewing and editing your footnotes — it doesn't change where they appear in the built book. To make endnotes appear as their own section at the back of the book or article, click on the Insert button at the bottom of the Chapters List, then click Notes.

Inkwell will automatically configure your Notes section based on the settings that you have already defined, and set Placement to Book Endnote. Once that section exists, it also gets its own permanent entry directly in the Chapters list — the Open dropdown's Notes item is always there too, and opens the same page either way.

A second family of notes

Everything above describes one set of notes. Inkwell keeps a second, independent set called annotations, numbered and placed separately, so a scholarly edition can run author's notes at the foot of the page and editorial notes at the back of the book without the two sequences colliding.

Clicking a note's marker moves it between the two families. See Annotations.