ReferenceMark

Footnote.ReferenceMark property

Gets/sets custom reference mark to be used for this footnote. Default value is empty string (Empty), meaning auto-numbered footnotes are used.

public string ReferenceMark { get; set; }

Remarks

If this property is set to empty string (Empty) or null, then IsAuto property will automatically be set to true, if set to anything else then IsAuto will be set to false.

RTF-format can only store 1 symbol as custom reference mark, so upon export only the first symbol will be written others will be discard.

Examples

Shows how to insert and customize footnotes.

Document doc = new Document();
DocumentBuilder builder = new DocumentBuilder(doc);

// Add text, and reference it with a footnote. This footnote will place a small superscript reference
// mark after the text that it references and create an entry below the main body text at the bottom of the page.
// This entry will contain the footnote's reference mark and the reference text,
// which we will pass to the document builder's "InsertFootnote" method.
builder.Write("Main body text.");
Footnote footnote = builder.InsertFootnote(FootnoteType.Footnote, "Footnote text.");

// If this property is set to "true", then our footnote's reference mark
// will be its index among all the section's footnotes.
// This is the first footnote, so the reference mark will be "1".
Assert.True(footnote.IsAuto);

// We can move the document builder inside the footnote to edit its reference text. 
builder.MoveTo(footnote.FirstParagraph);
builder.Write(" More text added by a DocumentBuilder.");
builder.MoveToDocumentEnd();

Assert.AreEqual("\u0002 Footnote text. More text added by a DocumentBuilder.", footnote.GetText().Trim());

builder.Write(" More main body text.");
footnote = builder.InsertFootnote(FootnoteType.Footnote, "Footnote text.");

// We can set a custom reference mark which the footnote will use instead of its index number.
footnote.ReferenceMark = "RefMark";

Assert.False(footnote.IsAuto);

// A bookmark with the "IsAuto" flag set to true will still show its real index
// even if previous bookmarks display custom reference marks, so this bookmark's reference mark will be a "3".
builder.Write(" More main body text.");
footnote = builder.InsertFootnote(FootnoteType.Footnote, "Footnote text.");

Assert.True(footnote.IsAuto);

doc.Save(ArtifactsDir + "InlineStory.AddFootnote.docx");

See Also

Footnote.NodeType Footnote.StoryType