Footnotes numbered consecutively across all files in a book

Using CS6, I've created a book with 24 chapters. In each chapter, the footnote numbering start with  1.
The author believes the footnotes should be numbered consecutively across all files in a book.
I don't see any option for InDesign to handle that unless I combine all the chapters into a single file. Am I right?
Any resources anyone can suggest which would give us a definitive answer on how footnotes should be numbered?
Thanks,
David

I have only done a few jobs that used footnotes. One of them was my undergrad thesis, which I did as one document, so all of the footnotes were numbered consecutively. If I had to make an uninformed bet, I'd guess that chapters shouldn't restart at 1, but that's only a guess. Also consider that there are several sets of rules that people can use (Chicago Manual of Style, APA, MLA, Turabian), so the "correct" answer might be conditional.
D Stark wrote:
I don't see any option for InDesign to handle that unless I combine all the chapters into a single file. Am I right?
There is the option to (for example) restart the numbering of chapter 2 with footnote number 8, if the last footnote of chapter 1 was 7. That will require you to always check each document of the book before you output it to be sure your restarts have the correct number, in case you added a footnote to a chapter that will cause the next chapter to need a new start number. You can restart footnote numbers in Type>Document Footnote Options>Numbering and Formatting.
There may be a plug-in that offers better footnote options, but I don't think InDesign's native footnote feature will allow footnote numbering to span book chapters, but I'm using  CS5, so maybe newer versions can do a better job.
I recommend you check back here to see if anyone has given a more definitive answer before you take my word for it.

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    My work is scholarly material with lots of footnotes, and I've been using ID seriously since version 2 (when footnotes still had to be done by hand à la PageMaker).  Final output is generally print, though some jobs also want PDFs for electronic distribution.  I mostly use tried-and-true IDCS4, though I have later versions installed on a test-bed.  I'm fully updated, under 64-bit Win7 (Intel i7-2600 with 16 GB RAM).  I like to proof in PDF, and have generated untold thousands.  This week, for the first time ever, ID's export to PDF screwed up footnote numbering on some 80 pp. in a 500-pp. book.  Has anyone else seen this?
    In the bad PDF, the footnote numbers in the text (re-started from 1 by perhaps 18 ID "sections") are fine, but on about 15% of the pages (perhaps 30% of the pages with footnotes) the numbers in the notes had increased their values by 2 or 3.  The corruption was not easy to spot, and once a few errors were noticed I needed to assess the damage: I generated a new PDF from a duplicate file, with the same Press settings, and used Acrobat 9 Pro's text comparison against the bad file to find all the differences.
    Both the original ID file and the duplicate look fine on screen, suggesting the problem occurred during this one export.  The job is a tricky one, a single ID file to accommodate some 2,100 cross-references.  It began as a Unicode text file I imported into IDCS4, where I used GREP to convert ASCII tagging to InDesign formatting (italics, etc.).  The file had shown some instability, occasionally reporting a dozen cross-references spontaneously going bad.  Passing the file through IDML did not cure this (I assume INX would strip the cross-refs).  However, stability returned when I replaced the one piece of art, an EPS vector, with an AI conversion.
    I'd like to think this was just a quirk of that one instance of exporting, perhaps because a leak somewhere reduced memory available to ID.  Or do I need to run an Acrobat comparison before I send anything out?
    Thanks,
    David

    There is absolutely no relationship between what InDesign installs (and uses) and the operation of Microsoft Word and Acrobat. InDesign does not install any system components or share any system components with Word and Acrobat.
    Look elsewhere for causes and solutions. In the case of Acrobat, if you have specific issues with printing with specific types of PDF files and/or devices, post your questions on the appropriate Acrobat forum (“Printing and Prepress”).
              - Dov

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