https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=146371
Bug ID: 146371
Summary: Default styling of footnotes in LibreOffice vs Default
styling of footnotes in (Microsoft Office+WPS
Office+paper books)
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 7.2.1.2 release
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: Writer
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Description:
In LibreOffice 7.2.1 (Ubuntu 21.10) footnotes look like this (picture
attached).
In Microsoft Office, footnotes look different (picture attached).
In WPS Office, footnotes look like in Microsoft Office (picture attached).
In most books, footnotes look like they do in Microsoft Office and in WPS
Office.
Let's take Mark Twain's book (picture attached) as an example of a paper book.
The edition is quite old, but it is easy to notice that an asterisk is used as
a footnote:
https://archive.org/details/marktwainssketch00twai_0/page/28/mode/2up?ref=ol&view=theater
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open LibreOffice Writer and create a footnote with some text.
Actual Results:
There may be different rules for the design of footnotes in paper books in
different countries.
But it seems to me that footnotes in an office suite should be originally
designed as in most books (picture attached), that is, in a superscript. After
all, experts from Microsoft and WPS Office did the same!
Expected Results:
Perhaps you should create a poll among LibreOffice developers and users about
what they want the default footnotes to be in LibreOffice.
In LibreOffice, the user can use styles to customize footnotes to look like
they do in Microsoft Office. But it takes time and is not an easy task for
novice LibreOffice users.
Reproducible: Always
User Profile Reset: No
Additional Info:
This is how the default footnotes are styled.
That is, please make sure that the number of the footnote is written in the
superscript, and reduce the distance from the number of the footnote to the
text of the footnote. And also please make a small indent of the first line.
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