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

[Chris Hoogendyk]

Crickets.

Does anyone on the list work with InDesign?


On 4/5/23 10:53 PM, Chris Hoogendyk wrote:
> 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