Created attachment 176419 [details] double column section with footnotes When using a double column section, the footnotes are only displayed in a single column. This is a regression beginning with version 7.3 alpha.
A likely candidate for this regression seems to be commit https://git.libreoffice.org/core/+/4c31b4ef2083087a822c3ae648fd09acc67d2f88%5E%21.
This gerrit https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/125442 will solve the problem for old odt files For newly created odt files, you can still reach the same layout, by setting: Format -> Sections... -> Options... -> Footnotes/Endnotes -> Collect at end of text + inserting a page break, if needed funny thing that Bug 138508 ask exactly the opposite of this ticket :) Note: LibreOffice never really supported multy-column footnotes. The footnotes can be at the end of its page, or at the end of its text column. (MSWord support only the end-of-page footnotes, but can put them in multiple columns regardless of how many columns there are on the page) If a footnote is at the end of its column, then it is part of the column... and if "Collect at end of text" is not set, then it should look like the footnote is at the end of the page... but if (page end not equal with column end) then it would be a logical contradiction... to avoid the contradiction someone (20+ years ago) forced these sections to occupy the full page.. even if it had only 2 line of text.. that is Bug 54465 before my commit, footnotes in a column, was always put into its column end.. and every other case it was put into its page end. Now you can 'choose' (with 'Collect at end of text') where to put the footnote.. into its column, or into its page. (beeing in a section and in an 'evenly distributed column' also a requirement to put the footnotes into the page end.)
Change status to ASSIGNED per comment 2.
(In reply to David from comment #1) > A likely candidate for this regression seems to be commit > https://git.libreoffice.org/core/+/ > 4c31b4ef2083087a822c3ae648fd09acc67d2f88%5E%21. I do confirm this regression was introduced by this commit
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 54465 ***
the mentioned gerrit https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/125442 is merged for Bug 54465 The attached (old odt) file now should be displayed so the footnotes are displayed in 2 columns.
Verified fixed with https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/125442
I don't think this is a duplicate of bug 54465 nor of 139336 since both issues were reported long time ago. Let's keep this one as RESOLVED FIXED independingly
Xisco Fauli committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/26f976aad49683f18e62219a2b5c0efcb38090d4 tdf#145826: sw_layoutwriter: Add unittest It will be available in 7.4.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
*** Bug 145825 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***