At 20:17 21/04/2008 -0700, Ganesha Bhaskara wrote:
I am using OO 2.3.1 on Ubuntu and am having some issues with
footnotes in a 2 column document.
The footnote inserted in column 1 is bleeding into column 2 ........
I expected for OO to adjust the size of the footnote box to fit the
entire footnote in the same column.
Here is the screen shot of the problem I am facing.
http://www.isi.edu/~bhaskara/images/oo_2c.png
What settings in OO would force all the text in the footnote to be
restricted to the column in which it was inserted ?
You've not thought this problem through, I'm afraid. You simply
cannot have what you claim to want and OpenOffice (or StarOffice, it
seems) is being helpful in doing what it is doing.
Yes: you would hope and expect that footnotes would appear in the
column where the reference actually occurs. But fitting footnotes in
requires a word processor to reduce the amount of material that would
otherwise fit into a page (or column, in this case). If the
reference occurs close to the bottom of the page, a paradox can
arise. Making space for the footnote may move the reference itself
over to the following page or column. Then you'd have all of your
footnote in the first column but the reference would have moved to
the top of the second column. You would then want the footnote moved
to the second column, but doing this would allow the reference to
move back to the first column, of course! It's Catch 22.
So what is the solution? It's what Writer has done, in fact. You
fit as much of the footnote in the first column as you can whilst
leaving the reference in that column. That will put the reference on
the last line, of course - just as it is in your case. And then you
continue the footnote in the following column or page, preceding any
footnote that properly appears there. Your screen shot is a textbook case.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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