Hi
Gina, Do you have to share yours documets with yours colleagues and
they have to make changes ? If not you can do your work with LibreOffice
and make a "pdf" document with LibreOffice and send it to your
collegues.
Regards,
Jorge Rodríguez
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El vie, 08-07-2011 a las 08:44 -0700, gena_hill escribió:
> Hi All! Thank you for the replies!
> When I say "footnotes," I am talking about the type used in academic
> writing. Endnotes also have the same problem... For a simple explanation
> of what footnotes and endnotes are, see:
> http://www.aresearchguide.com/7footnot.html
>
> Let me be a little more specific about my problem . . . while I am writing,
> I use Zotero to insert footnotes containing citation information. Also, I
> add footnotes manually when I need to add a little extra information. These
> footnotes come up in a different font than I am using, and I also like to
> change the font size to be a little smaller. I can not select all the
> footnotes at once and change these things. I have to do each one manually,
> which adds up quickly when you consider there are 50-60 per chapter of my 8
> chapter dissertation. And then there are other documents that I am working
> on too. I almost never have a piece of writing without footnotes.
>
> The next problem I have encountered is how footnotes and endnotes appear in
> .docx format; especially when I open them in Microsoft Word 2008 or 2011 for
> Mac. Unfortunately, no matter how much I'd like to use LibreOffice instead
> of Word, I have to submit my documents in .docx form to be read in Word. I
> have already done this once, and I had to re-insert every footnote in Word
> after transferring the document.
>
> Because of these two problems, at this point, LibreOffice is simply unusable
> for me - and probably for most academics and university students. It's a
> shame, because I really love it otherwise - especially its support for
> uncommon fonts (which I use a lot of). I can use N'Ko with LibreOffice, but
> not with Word 2011. (For more info on N'Ko, see:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%27Ko_script). While creating a macro may
> work, footnotes and endnotes are something that really should work
> automatically - especially for people who aren't good with computers, like
> me! :) And even if I do get that working, .docx files need to transfer
> seamlessly to Word 2011. Unfortunately, even if I switch to LibreOffice,
> the rest of my colleagues probably won't and so I need to be able to work
> with them without problems.
>
> I hope this explains everything! Thanks again!
>
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Atentamente,
Jorge Rodríguez
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