Pressbooks does not currently support automatic creation and numbering of end-of-book endnotes.

NOTE: This will leave some ellipses at the bottom of your chapter which should be deleted.Īfter copying or importing Word doc, click 'Convert MS Word Footnotes' button Converted footnotes and ellipses to delete Manually Adding End-of-book Endnotes.

Click and your footnotes should be converted.

In the Visual Editor, find the little 'window' icon beside 'FN.'.

Paste your Word doc/chapter with footnotes into Pressbooks.

To convert MS Word/Open Office footnotes/endnotes: NOTE: If your Word or Open Office doc has footnotes/endnotes, you must do this conversion, otherwise the footnote/endnote code will generate errors in EPUB and MOBI outputs, and will not link properly in PDF and Web outputs. To set your footnote options for PDF, go to:

(We currently do not support end-of-book endnotes, but see below for inserting these manually.) Chapter endnotes (displayed at the end of the chapter).Footnotes (displayed at the bottom of the page).

In ebook outputs (EPUB and MOBI), as well as on the web, footnotes are ALWAYS displayed at the end of the chapter. You can achieve the same thing using the footnote button in the VISUAL editor, either by highlighting the footnote text and clicking the 'FN' button, or by placing your cursor where you want your footnote marker to appear, selecting the 'FN' button and adding your footnote text: Highlight footnote text and click 'FN' button Click 'FN' button and type footnote into pop-up window Select Footnotes Or Chapter Endnotes in Theme Options (PDF only) This will automatically create a footnote (or endnote) with the text inside the 'shortcode'. Call me Ishmael.This is one of the most famous opening lines in the English language.Some years ago-never mind how long precisely.

Word endnote vs footnote