Footnote autonumbering might need to have different styles in different parts of the document. For example: Latin numerals on LTR/Latin-text pages, Hebrew or Arabic numbers on RTL page with Hebrew/Arabic content. Or perhaps pages in thematically different areas of the document, with one of them befitting a star, dagger, section etc. and another befitting numbers. So, I suggest this be made a feature of the Page Style, not the document like it is now (at least, UI-wise).
Got any backing to the requirement? I mean APA, IEEE, CMOS...
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #1) > Got any backing to the requirement? I mean APA, IEEE, CMOS... No. And isn't CMOS a semiconductor technology name? 8-| But: 1. If I want to combine two documents into one, I would need to be able to switch footnote autonumbering settings. 2. The Western-and-CTL document example: It doesn't make sense for a document in, say, German and Farsi, to have Latin-letter footnote references in the Farsi parts; nor does it make sense to have Farsi/Arabic-letter footnotes in the German part. So the way things stand now, either I not use alphabet letter at all in a multi-language document, or I need the ability to change autonumbering style.
Tried with two documents, the first using numbers for footnotes the second letters. Adding the second into a new document, as you do with master documents, takes the numbering scheme from this document - which is numbers by default. I see no way to have two schemes living together in harmony.
Eyal, I can't remember that I've ever seen it in real life. So is it a common layout?
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #3) > I see no way to have two schemes living together in harmony. If this bug is resolved, then they will live together in harmony. Although - one would have to have differently-named page styles for with the different auto-numbering schemes (unless bug 155740 is resolved.)
Eyal, could you provide a real life example. Taking into account your previous comments I can think about a book with different articles in different languages from different authors. But I don't think, that the editor would put them together into one odt-file.
(In reply to Dieter from comment #6) > Eyal, could you provide a real life example. So, I'll first say I don't believe that's really a valid request. It is established in LibreOffice that footnotes are styled essentially via page styles - spacing, area size, separator line; and the choice of which numbering system to use is - at least partially - a matter of style. Still, since you've asked - let's just flesh out the example in my opening comment. Suppose I write a report with some front-matter, e.g. an introduction, a main part and appendices. Each of those may have some footnotes, but I may well choose to have the main-part footnotes be numbered, with numbering not resetting every page; while the introduction may also have a couple of footnotes, which I specifically want _not_ to number, but rather indicate with shapes like †‡◆✱ . At the moment - that's not possible.