Description: It’s extremely common in critical editions of historical documents & manuscripts to have lots of short footnotes showing textual variations. Sometimes these might be one word plus a one-letter identifier for a manuscript. It’s a huge waste of space to format these all on separate lines and the ratio of text space to footnote space quickly becomes unworkable in Writer. Actual Results: Writer becomes impractical Expected Results: Writer should allow standard printing practices Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info: The footnote area should be a distinct object/section that can be formatted, e.g. into columns. Footnotes should not be forced to paragraphs, but equivalent to <div>s that could be floated with padding.
Created attachment 182982 [details] Example: critical edition of fragment of Sanas Cormac Spaced footnotes
Created attachment 182983 [details] Example: part of same document formatted in Writer Combining facing pages, but wasting a lot of space
Please attach a sample file.
How will attaching a sample file help when this is something you cannot do with Writer?
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What does status ‘Unconfirmed’ mean here?
That no one has yet reproduced your report.
How can it be reproduced when it’s an enhancement, i.e. something that cannot be done currently?
I support the request to consider footnote area as an independently configurable area, the same as a section.
Adding some related reports in "see also". Request makes sens to me too -> New. Design/UX, opinion?
This has been requested in bug 112064. And I like the idea, although it requires support by the document format. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 112064 ***