The script converts InDesign footnotes to dynamic endnotes. It adds some styles to the document: a paragraph style for the endnotes, a character style foot_to_endnote for the note references, and a cross-reference format -- you can to fine-tune them later. The styles are called endnote___ by default; if you want to change that you need to change that in the script at line 7.
With nothing selected in the document, the script processes all stories and places the notes at the end of the story. If the stories becomes overset you'll need to resolve this manually.
To convert the notes in just one story, select one of the story's text frames or just click in that story.
The script has no interface. Open the document that contains the notes you want to convert and run the script.
23 Jan. 2012: endnote numbering didn't always start at 1 (usually because of existing numbered lists); fixed. The script now also removes story-trailing white space and inserts a heading "Notes" between the text and the notes.
14 June 2010: added support for multiple stories and multiple paragraphs per note. (Thanks to Martin Fischer for pointing out the shortcoming.)
Click to show script -- to download, right click, then Save Link/Target As
Installing and running scripts
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