Description: I have stopped using Zotero as it does not offer good support for genealogical related sources. Instead, I create a footnote entry and paste in the Chicago reference generated by the Roots Magic software from my remote Ancestry tree. However, something weird has just happened... As I enter additional paragraphs before a referenced sentence [Alt I, T], my footnotes are (line by line) moved down onto a new page. The footnotes should stay together, and the paragraph text should move down, even if the footnotes take up most of one page. I wondered whether anybody else has encountered this? It sure is a strange one! Many thanks, Sarah Actual Results: My footnotes are moved (line by line) onto a new page. In Safe Mode, much of my document was missing. Expected Results: The paragraph text should eventually go onto a new / following page rather than the footnotes doing so. Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: Yes Additional Info: Version: 7.4.2.3 (x64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 382eef1f22670f7f4118c8c2dd222ec7ad009daf CPU threads: 16; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 22000; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win Locale: en-GB (en_GB); UI: en-GB Calc: CL
This is uurgent due to academic deadlines. thanks
Hi Sarah I would recommend asking your question on ask.libreoffice.org to find assistance quicker, especially if there is third-party software involved. Footnotes are supposed to stick to the page their anchors are located on. Is your problem that footnotes go to a different page to the text they reference? For us to have a look at the issue, we'd ideally need an example file in which we can test the unexpected behaviour. You can add such a file as an attachment here, and give us steps to follow to reproduce the issue.
Hi Stephanie. Apologies for my delay in replying. I did downgrade back to: Version: 7.4.1.2 (x64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 3c58a8f3a960df8bc8fd77b461821e42c061c5f0 CPU threads: 16; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 22000; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win Locale: en-GB (en_GB); UI: en-US Calc: CL That did resolve the issue, but it has now started again. As my document is a genealogy course assignment, it states family member's names and dates of birth / death, I don't want to upload it here. I shall e-mail the document to you now. Sarah
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Hi Sarah I had a look at the document you sent me via email. It looks like the style of your footnotes is a bit different to the "stock" footnote style. You could see if editing the footnote style (cursor in footnote > Styles > Edit style > Text flow tab) can help. Tick "do not split paragraph", and see if it solves the issue consistently for your document. I also tried ticking both "widow control" and "orphan control" instead, to have a style that's closer to the original, but it seems it does not help for particularly long footnotes, and brings up another issue of footnotes not on the right page! So sticking to "do not split paragraph" might be a sturdier workaround. I still think there is an issue here, so marking the bug as "new".
Created attachment 183718 [details] example ODT file to test issues Tested with: Version: 7.4.2.3 / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 382eef1f22670f7f4118c8c2dd222ec7ad009daf CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: de-DE (en_AU.UTF-8); UI: en-US Calc: threaded Steps to reproduce: 1. Open document in Writer 2. Go to highlight 1 and insert a new line after it 3. First issue: footnote 1 is split, its last line goes to page 2. 4. Modify the footnote style: Styles sidebar > Footnote > Modify > Text flow > Options. Tick "Orphan control" and "Widow control" (the defaults for this style), click OK. 5. Go to highlight 2, insert many new lines until all footnotes go to the next page. 6. Remove the inserted lines one by one. 7. Second issue: Footnote 3 comes back split 8. Third issue: Footnote 4 does not come back even though its anchor is visible.
Same behaviour in: Version: 6.3.6.2 Build ID: 2196df99b074d8a661f4036fca8fa0cbfa33a497 CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3; Locale: de-DE (en_AU.UTF-8); UI-Language: en-US Calc: threaded
Reviewing my steps a little, as I must have overlooked something. Steps to reproduce: 1. Open attachment 183718 [details] in Writer 2. Go to highlight 1 and insert a new line after it Issue A: footnote 1 is split, its last line goes to page 2. 3. Reload the document. Same can be observed with footnotes 3 and 4 when inserting extra lines after highlight 2. 4. Reload the document. To avoid footnotes 3 and 4 splitting, modify the Footnote paragraph style: Styles sidebar > Footnote > Modify > Text flow > Options. Tick "Orphan control" and "Widow control" (it's the default setting for this style in a new document), then click OK. 5. After highlight 2, insert new lines one by one until all footnotes go to the next page. Footnotes get pushed to the next page as a whole, which is what we wanted. However: Issue B: footnote 3 and 4 go to the next page even though the anchors are still on page 2 6. Remove the inserted lines one by one. Issue C: footnote 3 comes back split. Issue D: footnote 4 stays in page 3 even though the anchor is in page 2. ---- Reproduced in: Version: 7.4.5.1 / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 9c0871452b3918c1019dde9bfac75448afc4b57f CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: en-AU (en_AU.UTF-8); UI: en-US Calc: threaded Version: 7.6.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: b52117c0be97c45824d2897657084f8ac7e9bf42 CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: en-AU (en_AU.UTF-8); UI: en-US Calc: threaded Issue is exactly the same in OOo 3.3, so it is inherited. OpenOffice.org 3.3.0 OOO330m20 (Build:9567) Looks like Issue A is expected if the style does not have the right Orphan and Widow settings; however, issues B, C and D are bugs.