Miroslaw Zalewski's suggestion to use Zotero or an other software for referencing might be accompanied by some undesirable “side effects”. Sometimes I am using Zotero, but I always copy the formatted reference (Zotero Strg+Shift+C) directly into the LibreOffice foot- or endnote. In this way one can avoid a lot of problems, if one is collaborating with people using another reference management software or none at all. If one uses Zotero default insertion with field codes and remove them before sending to other coauthors, then those have problems, if they would like to insert additional references as Zotero (and all other similar software, I know) replaces the field codes with formatted normal text and does not convert the references to LibreOffice foot- or endnotes. There are enough problems, if I am working with LibreOffice and the coauthors are using a Microsoft product.
Am I really using the wrong function, when inserting references in form of foot- or endnotes like millions of MS-Office users are doing? LibreOffice is definitely NOT missing bibliographic features except the fixation of this bug. If somebody really wants more, there are programs like Biblioscape, Endnote, Reference Manager, Mendeley, Bibus, Zotero etc. On th other hand I can only imagine a very few occasions, where somebody needs to hide a foot- or endnote together with its anchor. The only reasonable situation I can imagine, is, that someone wants to reproduce an original historic document with footnotes, where some numbers are missing. In order to be able to use the automatic numbering for the rest, it might be useful to hide both anchor and note. As already mentioned, this is possible in MS-Word, although you need to hide anchor and note in a separate step. Another situation would be, if someone wants to use foot- or endnotes like commentaries. In my opinion this would really be a misuse. But nonetheless I suggested, to implement an option, whether foot- or endnotes should be hidden together with the corresponding anchor, which might be added to the menu at: "Tools-Options-LibreOffice Writer-Compatibility". This would help those, who used foot- or endnotes as commentaries in the past. You can find document showing every detail of the problem and further arguments, why this bug should be fixed at: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54393. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Footnotes-and-Endnotes-are-hidden-together-with-reference-numbers-tp3758012p4165855.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
