At 15:12 13/01/2011 +1100, Adam Noname wrote:
I'm having problems with large footnotes. When I add footnotes to a document I only see the first couple of lines of the footnote when in edit mode or Page Preview. Is there a setting somewhere to make footnotes dynamically expand as needed?
Are you sure that you are not just seeing the intractable problem that occurs with large footnotes? Look at the next page: is the rest of the footnote there?
When you insert a footnote, room has to be made for it at the foot of the current page. And yes: space is made available for it as necessary. That means that some of the page text that would otherwise appear on that page has to be carried over to the following page. So far, so good. But if the insertion point is near the bottom of a page or if your footnote is large (as you say yours are), there is a problem: that amount of text that needs to be carried over may include the insertion point itself. This creates an intractable dilemma: if the footnote is fitted into the current page, its reference will be carried over to the following page, but if the footnote follows it there the reference will move back to the previous page. In either case, the reference and the footnote will be on different pages.
The solution to this problem is for the footnote to be split across two pages. As much as can be fitted in without carrying over its reference is placed at the foot of the original page, with the reference necessarily now being in the bottom line of text on that page. The remainder of the footnote appears at the foot of the following page, beneath the separator line but without any footnote number. This may be followed by footnotes that are referenced on that following page, of course.
I trust this helps. Brian Barker --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
