[Hidden-tech] using simple markups in text files for import into InDesign

[Chris Hoogendyk]

Hoping to find some experts out there with long documents in InDesign 
who might know something about how to construct text files with markup 
for footnotes and indices that will import into InDesign. If that's not 
possible, what is the easiest way of dealing with the construction of 
footnotes and indices in long documents. I'm doing most of the writing 
work in LibreOffice and expect to save that out as text files. I would 
hate to have to start from scratch building those elements in InDesign. 
I expect to have more than one index as well as more than one table of 
contents for a historical piece of work going well over 100,000 words.

I'm familiar with the markup used in Wikipedia for building references 
and re-using those references by name as well as referencing other 
articles, etc. Something like that would be really nice. My Google Foo 
completely fails me, and it doesn't seem to be the sort of thing that 
ChatGPT can answer.

Thank you,

Chris Hoogendyk
choogendyk at earthlink.net