A solution to the Footnote/Endnote Problem

[Dan Emory <danemory@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've been testing a solution to the FM footnote problem by producing
endnotes instead. It seems to work fine, and eliminates the hated migration
of footnotes to the wrong page.

The solution has two parts:
1. Make the footnote text very small and invisible, so it takes up hardly
any space. This involves the following substeps:
	a. Remove the footnote reference frame from the
           reference page so as to eliminate the footnote line.
	b. Set the size of the footnote text to 2 points. 
           They're still visible and editable by zooming
           in to 800%.
	c. At print time, globally update all footnote paragraphs
           to make them invisible by changing the text color 
           to white.
2. Compile the invisible footnotes into endnotes by generating a List of
Paragraphs (LOP) containing the numbers and text of of all footnote
paragraphs, with page number references.

During testing of this approach, I found that I could place at least two
footnotes on a page when one of the footnote references was in the last text
line of the page. The two footnotes occupy so little vertical space that the
last text line above the footnotes is less than  0.2" from the bottom of the
text frame. Obviously, more than two such footnotes could appear on a page
when none of them are in the last few lines of text on the page.

Has anyone else tried this method, and if so, are there problems with it I
haven't found yet?
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Dan Emory, Dan Emory & Associates
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