2010/10/29 Daniel Lewis <[email protected]>: > Guy Voets wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I have a section with 2 equal-length columns. I type text in the >> columns, and this text is equally spread over both columns. So far so >> good. Then I make a footnote. Now, the word with the (1) passes to the >> next page, leaving the second column empty. The text of the note is >> too long to fit at the bottom of the first column, but I would expect >> that the note text would be split over both columns (continue from the >> first into the second, as happens with the text in the columns - or >> with a footnote in a text without columns). >> Is this a bug, or is there a solution? >> -- >> Guy >> > > Perhaps it is a bug, perhaps not. > I do have a suggestion. It appears you have formatted the section so > that the text is equally spread over both columns. Then you added a > footnote. Perhaps you have the wrong order for these operations. From my > testing of this, it appears that the footnote is a part of the section. > This is what I tried. I created a section and formatted it. (Format > > Sections > Options) "Evenly distribute content to all columns" was not > checked (not ticked). I copied a little less than 2 pages of text into the > section. Then I added a footnote in the first column of the first page. > Finally, I formatted the section by checking (ticking) "Evenly distribute > content to all columns". The footnote was still at the bottom of column 1 of > page 1. Even though I then added 8 more lines to the footnote, the footnote > remained where it was. At this point, the footnote was 20 lines long! > Again, it may be a bug, but the solution may be to leave "Evenly > distribute content to all columns" unchecked (not ticked) until after you > have all of the text AND footnote in the section. Then check (tick) this > selection. > > Dan
Thanks Dan, I'll try it out tomorrow. As an alternative I changed them into endnotes, but footnotes would be better. -- Guy using LibO 3.3.0 and OOo 3.2.1 on a iMac Intel DualCore Snow Leopard -- please reply only to [email protected] -- Dodoes can't afford to have headaches --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
