Hi all!
I'm typesetting a Swedish Bible in InDesign and I've run into a number of problems, to the point that I'm wondering if this is too big a task for InDesign. I was told that there are a few people on this forum that have done Bible compostition in InDesign so I turn to you to see what suggestions you have on plug-ins/scripts or built-in tricks that you have utilized.
Below I've attached an image which will help explain the issues I'm facing. I've done this layout manually to show how I want it to look.
1. InDesign only supports one stream of footnotes but I need two, one for notes and one for cross-references. I've found that Virginia Systems’s Sonar Bookends InFnote plugin can offer me another stream of footnotes in addition to the one built into InDesign. But InFnote doesn't offer the kind of flexibility I desire. It doesn't resize the text blocks according to the footnotes on each page, and I didn't even get it to create a new block on the pages that didn't have one. I had to do that manually. Are there any good plug-ins for InDesign that could give me another stream of footnotes with high flexibility?
2. InDesign can't place footnotes that span over columns if the main text is in more than one column (see image for reference). There is a span column option in the paragraph styles but for some annoying reason it doesn't work with footnotes. I found this script by Peter Kahrel that helps out a bit but it still leaves me with a page-to-page manual control to correct the sizes of textblocks, and thereby moving the notes to their right pages. That's a lot of work when you have 1500 pages.
3. The header should contain the book of the name followed by the first/last chapter plus verse for left/right pages. I've found power headers at intools.com. I haven't been able to try it yet but I think it might work, or at least simplify it for me. Anyone who can confirm that?
