Description: When I insert footnotes in a text in two columns, the number and disposition of footnotes are incorrect. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Insert dummy text into one page only. 2. Configure that text in two columns. 3. Go to Tools->Footnotes and Endnotes. 4. Configure numbering footnotes by page. 5. Insert two footnotes in that text. Actual Results: The footnote numbering is incorrect (usually starting on 0 and not incrementing). Expected Results: Numbering correct. Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info: None.
Have tried this in LO 7.4.6.2. Couldn't find any buggy behavior with OpenSUSE 15.4 64bit rpm Linux. Please add a little example here, which shows wrong numbering of footnotes. Try also with starting LO in Safe Mode.
Created attachment 187325 [details] Example file with the mentioned bug. Behold the file with a bogus example of use of numbering footnote by page presenting a problematic numbering.
You have created a separate section for setting two columns. Set cursor in this section. Right mouse click → Edit Sections. In this dialog chose Options → Footnotes/Endnotes. Set Footnotes → Collect at end of text Footnotes will appear in the section and will be numbered well. Then I had a look what is going wrong with the footnotes, because I couldn't reproduce with the same kind of document. Go to the footnote at the bottom of the page. Right mouse click → Footnotes and Endnotes Counting is greyed out. Set Start at → Per document Position → End of Page This are the default settings here. It will show the right footnote at the bottom of the page.
Hi! Thanks by your attention for me. I have tried reproduce the error and it continues appearing. Behold, I need to put columns with numbering footnotes "by page". I follow your suggestion, but I got the same error yet. Try to do the following: 1) Create two sections, one in each page. 2) In each section, insert two footnotes. 3) Configure in Tools->Footnotes and Endnotes, numbering "by page". 4) Try to do your suggestion (is what I did), but the error remains. Regards,
Have now tested the difference between 2 columns setting in page style and setting in a section. This is the way to reproduce the error: Open a Writer document. Insert → Section (with 2 columns) Tools → Footnotes → Start at → per Page Enter some text content and add a footnote. Number for this footnote will be 0. Enter next footnote. Number will also be 0. This bug doesn't appear in a section with 1 column. This bug doesn't appear if page is set to 2 columns and no section is used. Bug appears in Version: 7.5.3.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 9f56dff12ba03b9acd7730a5a481eea045e468f3 CPU threads: 6; OS: Linux 5.14; UI render: default; VCL: kf5 (cairo+xcb) Locale: de-DE (de_DE.UTF-8); UI: en-US Calc: threaded This bug doesn't appear in LO 7.3.0.3, but appears in LO 7.3.6.2. So a regression
Apparently, I've identified the problem more specifically. When, in the crossing of the page, I put one footnote, in the last line of the page, the Writer presents the problem, because the line should go to next page, but the footnote doesn't fit in the page of its occurrence. The program confound the numbering with position of footnote.
This seems to have begun at the below commit in bibisect repository/OS linux-64-7.4. Adding Cc: to Attila Szűcs ; Could you possibly take a look at this one? Thanks 0f3ce53461d7e3b4e357a3276869be7e1eb4dd7b is the first bad commit commit 0f3ce53461d7e3b4e357a3276869be7e1eb4dd7b Author: Jenkins Build User <tdf@pollux.tdf> Date: Tue Feb 15 17:09:05 2022 +0100 source 9a457c24ab2731c99f1a5fa1d28f68788e6977f3 129896: tdf#146704 sw: fix regression of endnote layout in sections | https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/129896