It would be wonderful if Ulysses could export to Word with Footnotes. Actually, it would also be wonderful if Ulysses would have an easier way of setting footnotes (rather than requiring the user to the markup to link it, have a "New Footnote" contextual menu item that places a tag at the current cursor location, creates a new note, prepopulates it with the corresponding tag, and then places the cursor exactly where it needs to be.

Also, I live in a country where the rules of style are all described in metric measurements (margins, indents, etc. are in cm, not inches). I have not been able to find a preference to change the units from inches, and converting each measurement manually results in weird inches values like 1.833434954545. If there is a preference to change this, could someone please point me in the right direction?

I just wrote a paper for my master's degree in Ulysses, but due to the restrictions above I ended up having to do all of my formatting in Word (which accepts metric values), along with the footnotes, etc. I really think Ulysses is a great piece of software, but as I'm writing a few papers a week I really need something that will work seamlessly with Word.

I second the suggestion of a footnote contextual menu—that would be very helpful.

Yes, we got plans to make footnotes easier. And adding a contextual menu item will be pretty easy afterwards - now it's not :)

> Perhaps Ulysses could be set up so that there is a footnote inline style.

It's already there. Just put a '-' right after the start tag and you get an inline footnote.

Example:
This is a little example of inline footnotes{{-This will be the footnote text}} in Ulysses.

Thanks, Michael. That's exactly what I was looking for. I think I was led astray by the initial how-to for footnotes in the help:

"To add a footnote, the key, enclosed in start and stop tag, has to be put at the position where the footnote should appear in the exported document, e.g. {{FN1}}. During the export, a footnote marker is put at this position. The text for the footnote can then be entered in the notes in the form "start tag - key - dash - footnote text - stop tag", for example1."

Your explanation is clearer, I'll fire up Ulysses and try it.

I've got a feature request for footnotes.

When citing references in footnotes, it is very common to write "ibid." followed by the page number if two or more consecutive footnotes cite the same source. "Ibid." indicates that the immediately preceding reference is being cited again.

But sometimes a changing text demands that footnotes be moved around or added, which can make it hard to keep track of where the "ibid." references ought to go. It would be great if I could somehow be warned if:
a) I am moving a footnote that is immediately followed by an "ibid."
b) I have added a new footnote in between an existing reference and an "ibid."
c) I am moving an "ibid." to a new place where the preceding reference is not the same as the original.

EDIT: Sorry to revive an old thread—I thought I was in a much more recent thread about footnotes when I posted.