Or you could try using Microsoft WORD to create the document and then use Windows Live writer to upload it into your blog.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/xml-rpc/windows-live-writer/

Or a simpler workaround than a href tags.

Thanks!

Does WordPress provide any way to insert an end-note number or footnote number in the text, raised in the standard fashion?

No. The links to workarounds I are:
http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2009/07/05/formatting-text-pt-4/
http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2010/08/01/links-to-specific-points-on-a-page/

Or you could try using Microsoft WORD to create the document and then use Windows Live writer to upload it into your blog.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/xml-rpc/windows-live-writer/

Hope the week end started nicely for all.

I am preparing a new post which would require some further thick references and was wondering if it is possible - and if so, how - to create footnotes - or rather endnotes - in Twenty Eleven theme?

Thanks!

I really am spoiled. At the beginning of last fall, it was suggested to me, that if I wanted to write and sell a book, I should create a website. How in the world does an old geezer create a website. It was easy with WordPress. It was designed to be easy, with good comprehensive support. Perfect! I am so spoiled that I expected to work with endnotes easily using WordPress.

I am writing by editing my website pages. When I want to create an endnote, for lack of an easy method, I copy the last word or two from a sentence, paste that into a Word document, just the two words, Then I use "reference" in Word 12 to apply the endnote number and then copy the two words with the number, properly placed slightly above the text, and paste it back to my WP.com site. It transfers with a large number in brackets and blue rather than black. [1]
It would be better to just use the large number when writing on the website page. Word 12 does add the numbers sequentially which is a help.
I was going to experiment by writing in SkyDrive and than transfer to my site, but could not find a way to inject an endnote number prior to embedding the document in my site. (My plan was to erase the SkyDrive title afterward.)
I wonder if anyone has discovered a way to apply endnotes when writing in WP.com or .org. Someone in the world may have worked their way through this problem of using endnotes.
When searching Support for an answer, yesterday,I did find the problem was discussed, three years ago but did not find a solution.
(Member, conoverc, may have been listed as part of the discussion.)

It's worth looking into.

If I were convinced that WP.org or an available plug-in would allow for easy endnotes, I would purchase it. Word provides for both footnotes and endnotes, but I can not transfer it, or Windows Live Writer, to my WP.com site.

WordPress.com teases writers with the "Write a Book" section of "Writing and Editing" but ignores footnotes and endnotes. I find this troublesome, but it does not take much away from the beneficial aspects of WordPress including the excellent support available to a novice like me.

I presume the underlying software architecture is similar if not identical in WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org. So I presume there's no "technological" barrier to making this add-in available to WordPress.com users. Am I missing something?

Is that only available to WordPress.org users?

Does WordPress provide any way to insert an end-note number in the text, raised in the standard fashion?

No. The links to workarounds I already provided are here > http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/writing-3?replies=6#post-1134805

My desire is to add end note numbers as I write pages and refer to those numbers in the page I have entitled "notes".

Thanks, Fred

If you've bought the CSS upgrade paste this inside:

.two-column #content {
overflow: visible;
}
.footnote {
display: block;
width: 234px;
margin-left: 543px;
height: 0px;
}
a.footnoteref, a:visited.footnoteref, .footnote a {
color: red;
text-decoration: none;
}

Anytime you want to do a footer enter this text:

3<span class="footnote">3. *RIGHT HERE WHERE THESE WORDS ARE*.</span>

^^ And insert your words inside the space where the *words are* (you can delete the *).

^^ The key thing here is to do this in the edit more and enter it in the TEXT space and not the VISUAL space (<this is the mistake I was making).