https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112064

--- Comment #25 from ajlittoz <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #24)
> (In reply to ajlittoz from comment #23)
> > IMHO, all necessary tools are already present in Writer.
> Could you share an example please?

I am sorry if I created confusion, leading to think this is presently possible.

My intention was to suggest a possible solution based on the section feature.
If footnote area can some way or other be considered a section, section
configuration allows to layout the area multi-columns.

Looking carefully at the attached examples, notably the Arabic "Many footnotes
per line", multicolumn does not solve completely the request. In this example,
we rather have end-of-paragraph suppression (which IMHO makes detection of note
start more difficult).

I know that ODF does not cover the case.

My proposal for a section needs serious thinking about it because:
-1- footnote location is not known in advanced (apart the area is flushed
vertically against footer boundary)
-2- it extends upwards until it meets main text
-3- it may spill over to next page

-1- is probably the most serious
-2- any section grows (downwards), so not knowing its size can probably be
handled
-3- sections are already continued on next page when needed

Another approach could be to consider a frame, but I think frames don't fit
here because they need an anchor (to which "object" attach this anchor?). Using
a page anchor may lead to more problems than a section.

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