https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147963
--- Comment #4 from ajlittoz <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Dieter from comment #3) > Ajlittoz, thank you for reporting the bug. Please don't put more than one > problem into a report. IMHO, parts A & B are two faces of the same problem: endnotes are not managed by the standard page layout engine and seem to have a specific one. Perhaps all notes, even footnotes, go through an "exception" to standard page layout. I presented part B as a workaround to the issue in part A but it is not satisfactory anyway because you can't tweak the page style. > Thank you. So let's focus on Part A. > > I can confirm the problem: Although it's possible to assign different page > styles to endnote pages, it seems, that it doesn't work. > > So possible solution would be to add an option to footnotes and endnotes > dialog, to assign a page style for left pages and a page style for right > pages. I don't think this is the good track because it will make a difference between "standard" pages and endnote pages, instead of a uniform approach to page configuration. Thinking aloud about the issue, I wonder if the cause could be the fact that notes are sent in the "note sub-area" which is "prisoner" of the surrounding page. This sub-area is not allowed to make modifications to said page because it could cause real trouble (for a hint, note that you can't enter a page break in any "note sub-area", including footnotes). Pages with footnotes have a "text sub-area". You can then customise the page style and insert page breaks. Everything then behaves as expected. Endnote page is a bit different. It looks like it has no "text sub-area" (the whole page area outside header and footer is dedicated to notes). Consequently, you can't act on the page and text flow. Perhaps, if you could create a "text sub-area", even when zero height (or the bare minimum needed so that it is not eliminated), this would solve the issue, enabling standard page style handling. After all, you can have huge footnotes. But Writer enforces limits on the size of footnote area. It looks like the "text sub-area" has a minimum of 2.26cm (not even 1", so I don't see where this minimum comes from), even if Not larger than page area is selected. This is demonstrated in the FullPageFootnotes.odt sample file where I tried to simulate Endnote behaviour with footnotes. No matter how you configure the page style, you can't cover the page with footnotes. This suggests contextual handling of notes, whether they are endnotes or footnotes. Perhaps having a look at this could solve the problem: being less limitative in the footnote case (so that Not larger than page area is effective), and introducing a tiny "sub-text area" in the endnote case (so that standard page management occurs). > Since this is an enhancement request, let's ask design-team. I hope you > agree. > > cc: Design-Team IMHO, this is not an enhancement request, unless specification explicitly states that present behaviour is intended. Endnote pages are part of a document and user expects to format them just like s/he can format other pages. For instance, not being able to change margins is not acceptable. The Writer Guide doesn't mention any restriction of this type. For me it is a bug, not in the usual sense, but resulting from an implementation decision. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
