https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164059
Bug ID: 164059
Summary: WRITER enhancement: restart endnotes at PAGE BREAKS --
it's just a checkbox :)
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 25.2.0.0 alpha0+
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: enhancement
Priority: medium
Component: Writer
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Created attachment 197805
--> https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/attachment.cgi?id=197805&action=edit
illustration (editing page break properties)
hi,
Of course I'm aware that a checkbox is not just a checkbox but a lot of code.
We do appreciate your work!
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This idea of restarting the numbering of endnotes mush have come up a thousand
times already. First, let me give an interpretation why that would be so great.
CHAPTERS of BOOKS.
It is such a great thing that WRITER can be used to create books
professionally!! (not the covers but the pages inside)
Only one program can also do that, Scribus.
Writer is top-notch, really!
This idea with resetting endnotes (restarting numbering from 1 again) could be
a great improvement!
Why?
Because books have chapters and readers like to see endnotes "per chapter"...
To look for endnote number 236 is not such a great fun.
To look for endnote number 16 (chapter 6) is way-way better.
But not only this:
endnote number 236 is a 3 digit number!!!
This means that it requires a significant amount of space next to the word the
index number is placed at.
like Those delicious Canadian apples(subscript)236...
16 takes much less space than 236.
And spaces add up.. and at the second half of a book with lots of notes can
easily loses its typographic "formatting" (where the text ends in a given
page).
ANYWAY.
Why not allow the restarting of endnotes? :)
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SO, HOW TO GO ABOUT IT?
PAGE BREAKS.
In a book, page breaks are used as "CHAPTER BORDERS".
More precisely: chapter borders are created as page breaks.
Page Breaks can be edited.
Editing can happen TWO ways.
#1:
"Insert / More Breaks / Manual Break"
(manual means: you get a dialog popup, and set a few things:
"Page style"
"Change number"
With this, the page numbering changes.
Page 11 will be handled as if it was page 39 or 73 or 311
Which the page numbers will reflect.
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Here in this panel there could come another option:
"RESET endnote numbers" (to 1)
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#2:
When the page break is already inserted. You can still edit it.
You'll get to a paragraph style dialogue window.
You go to TEXT FLOW.
In that, you'll find:
BREAKS
▶ insert (checkbox)
▶ Position (dropdown / option menu)
▶ with page style (checkbox + dropdown)
▶ page number (numeric input field)
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HERE, in this panel,
there could also be a "RESET endote numbering checkbox.
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