reference_mark property

Footnote.reference_mark property

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

@property
def reference_mark(self) -> str:
    ...

@reference_mark.setter
def reference_mark(self, value: str):
    ...

Remarks

If this property is set to empty string () or None, then Footnote.is_auto property will automatically be set to True, if set to anything else then Footnote.is_auto 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.

doc = aw.Document()
builder = aw.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 "insert_footnote" method.
builder.write("Main body text.")
footnote = builder.insert_footnote(aw.notes.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".
self.assertTrue(footnote.is_auto)

# We can move the document builder inside the footnote to edit its reference text.
builder.move_to(footnote.first_paragraph)
builder.write(" More text added by a DocumentBuilder.")
builder.move_to_document_end()

self.assertEqual("\u0002 Footnote text. More text added by a DocumentBuilder.", footnote.get_text().strip())

builder.write(" More main body text.")
footnote = builder.insert_footnote(aw.notes.FootnoteType.FOOTNOTE, "Footnote text.")

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

self.assertFalse(footnote.is_auto)

# A bookmark with the "is_auto" 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.insert_footnote(aw.notes.FootnoteType.FOOTNOTE, "Footnote text.")

self.assertTrue(footnote.is_auto)

doc.save(ARTIFACTS_DIR + "InlineStory.add_footnote.docx")

See Also

Footnote.node_type property Footnote.story_type property