Alternative to EndNote for appending endnotes

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Alternative to EndNote for appending endnotes

I am helping a student prepare a term paper on her new MacBook Air. An online search suggests that the only way to get end notes is for her to buy EndNotes. The student cannot afford it nor does she have time to learn the program. I'm trying to figure out a work around in the next few days.

I usually use LaTeX for document processing, and it can handle end notes. However, I'd have to convert the Pages document to LaTeX. I don't even know the format of a Pages document. Can I do a direct conversion? Or do I have to convert the Pages format to RTF and then the RTF to LaTeX?

The student may have access to a Windows machine (all machines here except her Mac are Linux). Can a Pages document be readily converted to a Word format and can Word handle end notes? I don't now Word and so can't say off hand.

I suspect the quickest thing is simply for the student to append a page to her paper and type in the end notes. How in Pages does one create a superscript number?

MacBook Air, iOS 8

Posted on Apr 19, 2015 5:02 PM

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Apr 19, 2015 5:30 PM in response to HainesBrown

You are asking a lot of very basic questions which could be answered yourself by just taking a walk through the application.

Start with reading the menus which are all terse simple English, and the same or similar in all Apple Apps:

In your case:

select the number > Format > Font > Baseline > Superscript or control command shift +

The keyboard shortcut is listed next to the menu item or can be looked up under the Help menu.

Or you can use Pages '09 which has many more options and functions than Pages 5, including several free notation apps.

Peter

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Apr 21, 2015 8:08 AM in response to PeterBreis0807

Peter, thanks for the advice, but I'm not much further along.

To construct end notes manually, I need to insert a superscript number. Using Format->Font>Baseline>Superscript works. The keyboard shortcut does not work for me. If I press the Control command, then the plus sign (I have a laptop, not a keyboard with numeric pad) and then a number, it is simply larger, not smaller and superscripted.

Of course these numbers are not automatically incremented. As for using Pages '09 do you mean an older version of Pages? The one I'm using is version 5.2 and seems to be 2014.

After suffering with Pages, I'm going to have the person I'm helping install LaTeX with a GUI editor such as LyX. I find TeX far more transparent, predictable, and its output has better quality.

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Apr 21, 2015 8:54 AM in response to HainesBrown

command shift +

It is command not control and you have to hold down the shift key because + is uppercase.

Peter

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