This is what I was trying to achieve: --------- ----------- ------- === ---1--- ==2 ----- === --------- -----------
1. ........ 2. ........ Body Text flowing as usual (illustrated by ---), with some sidebars (===), and with footnotes gathered at the bottom of each page (shown with ...). This apparently can't be done with LibreOffice Writer for a number of reasons, so before describing how I achieved it, I'll go over the methods I attempted using Writer itself. A. Using a Frame for the sidebar: apparently because of the way the Open Document format is specified, footnote references simply aren't permitted in a frame. B. Using a table for the sidebar: while a footnote reference can be placed in a table, text cannot be wrapped around a table unless the table is placed in a frame - leading to the same restriction described in A. If the table is set up in two columns, placing normal text in the left column with the sidebar text in the right column this sort of works, it is only effective if the text lengths are exactly equal, which doesn't happen very often. Furthermore, the whole thing is thrown out of whack if either text needs to be edited. C. Using Columns in a manner similar to B.: This is a little more flexible (if tedious) than using tables, but the main drawback is that any footnotes that are defined will be placed at the bottom of the column in which they are referenced rather than at the bottom of the page itself. So I cheated. In the hope that this might help someone else, here's how I did it. If there is a better way, I would love to hear it. I began by inserting footnote 2 at an appropriate place in the normal body text where it wouldn't affect the flow of the text. This is illustrated below. --------- ----------- ------- === ---1--- === ----- 2 === --------- ----------- 1. ........ 2. ........ Once that was done, I altered the character formatting for the reference so that it was all white (or whatever it takes to make it invisible). Then go to the desired position in the sidebar text and add the footnote number as regular text where it is needed and format it using the "Footnote Characters" character style. Since it can't be assumed that the document will never change, however, it is even better to insert a cross reference to the real footnote rather than simply typing the number. This is done with the menu sequence "Insert | Cross Reference ... | Cross-References | Footnotes." Locate the new hidden reference you just added and under "Insert Reference to" select "Reference." I've done this in several places and it seems to work just fine. The added benefit is that it will really confuse anyone who later attempts to figure out what you did :) -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Footnote-references-in-Frames-and-or-Tables-tp4082993p4083482.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
