Converting hard-entered endnotes to footnotes?

[New Daddy]

Some academic databases convert footnotes to endnotes in a journal or article and place them at the end of the paper, in storing articles in text format. For example, in the body text, you would see "FN#" but the actual footnote will be found at the end of the document with the leading identifier "Footnote #" - practically an endnote. Needless to say, it really bogs you down to flip to the end of the document every time a footnote comes up and come back.



From the perspective of the database, it's the only way to preserve footnotes in an article, because there is no way to match the place of the footnote with the footnote text without pagination.

But from the reader's perspective, it's a PITA for the reader to navigate an article.

So, I was wondering if it is possible to automatically cut each paragraph starting with "Footnote #" and paste it where the corresponding "FN#" as the footnote. If this can be done, it will save a lot of reading time.

[macropod]

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