Brian Barker wrote:
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,
in retrospect ....... yes ;-)
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.
Thanks for the info ....... after MANY iterations to the the document I
completely lost track of where footnotes were inserted.
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.
There is one more page in which I am seeing the same behavior for the
footnote that happens to have moved to the last line on the page. I am
glad you pointed this out. What is the change that one ends up with
multiple footnotes migrating to the last line on the page in the same
document, especially considering that I have never encountered this
footnote behavior before.
-G
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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