FrameMaker Footnote to Endnote Plug-in?

["Ed Bouchard" <ed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Folks, 

I have a largish Word document, from a client. It's an academic monograph
(related to medical history). Without the 50 page or so bibliography, the
six chapters have about 500 pages, 200 of which are endnotes (well over 2000
endnotes). I've worked with the writer as his editor for a number of years
and trained him to use the Word Styles and Formatting features. It is fairly
clean for a Word document; it has almost no local over-rides, although there
were 7 "Normal" paragraphs that seemed to sneak in. I tried but couldn't
find these 7 in order to convert them to something else more appropriate.
Mainly, other than the 7 offending "Normal" paragraphs, of the paragraph
styles "in use" (according to Word), there are simply 4 heading levels a
"Body" and "Indent," plus there an "Emphasis" character style for all of the
words with italics. All these were generated through the Word Styles and
Formatting bar. Shortly, the client will want me to lay it out as a 6 x 9
book (and an online PDF or e-book) -- and I'd rather not use Word for that.
For distribution of the Word file (as a PDF) to academic colleagues , the
client added markers for a one-level name-index, which he did correctly.
There are also a few hundred illustrations, which I haven't yet seen and are
currently independent of the text.  

For a book layout, an InDesign-InCopy workflow with the Infoot plug-in from
Virginia Systems seems one option. I'm quite new to InDesign, so I'm not
sure how big of a project it will be with that approach. I suspect the many
well-tested book features of FrameMaker would make life easier. 

To opt for a FrameMaker solution, however, a big problem is the endnotes. On
Rick Quatro's suggestion, I tried opening one chapter from Word in
FrameMaker. The Frame filter converts the endnotes to footnotes, but
otherwise brought in the document formatting intact. My question: Is there
plug-in (or FrameScript) to convert Frame footnotes to numbered cross
references? Rick Q thought there might be. If so, does the plug-in work
two-ways? That is, for reading a PDF onscreen, I would like the numbered
cross-references (which will look like endnotes) to link back to the text
where the cross-reference originated. 

Perhaps it would be desirable instead have someone write a VB script to do
that ahead of time in a Word document. 

If it would serve better, I'm quite willing to try an InDesign-InCopy-Infoot
approach. Other than the endnote problem, however, FrameMaker is quite
serviceable for designing books. So, a plug-in or FrameScript seems a better
option. 

Right now, I'm working with FrameMaker 7.0, Acrobat 7.0, and Word 2002. My
client has Word 2003, and has Dutch as the language principle language on
his machine. For the project, I have selected the UK English option of Word.


Thanks for your help. 
 
Ed Bouchard 


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