When writing a document, it is far easier to see the notes in each page. But when publishing, specially for large document, it is often necessary to have all notes as endnotes, depending on edition format. Now, i need to change each note type 1 by 1, which is not funny. I would apreciate a function that change the format for all notes. Thanks !
Reasonable enhancement request, of unknown technical complexity. It does not appear to have been suggested in prior enhancements. Setting New. @bernard -- would help move the suggestion along if you were to provide mockup and annotation of how you envision the feature would work. Start with simplest case of toggling all pagenotes/footnotes to endnotes--what should the GUI be? Rough sketch it out. Opposite direction of endnotes to footnotes likely to be more of an issue, but how should it work?
Thank you for your action and your question. First, i would suggest to have an easier way to edit notes : now we need to find one note and select it, so that the "note" option being active in edition menu. It should always be active, and select as the "current edited note" for instance the next note after the cursor. It would be far more easier as a note symbol is quite small and not easy to select. Second, in the edition window for notes (obtained when selecting the "note" option in edition menu, or in the "note" option of the right click menu) there are already 2 arrows to select the previous, resp the next, note as "current edited note". I would suggest to add a button "Select all" so that the choice for "note type" be applied to all notes. For a full functionality, it would be possible to apply the "select all" mode also for the choice of "automatic numbering", but the manual option needs "select one" mode. From outside it seems quite simple and quite efficient for the user, i don't know from the inside ;-) By the way i may highlight you the need that someone look how to solve the Bug 38187 that is quite old now, from 2011. I have a 500+ page book to finish and not having links between text and endnote in the generated pdf is quite disturbing. Thanks a lot !
YES PLEASE! :) This has *long* been a simple matter of menu choice in Word (as long as I can remember, and that goes back 15 years or so). I asked about this on AskLibO back in 2012... http://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/5341/is-there-a-way-to-convert-all-footnotes-to-endnotes-and-vice-versa/ ...but I didn't think to raise an enhancement request at the time. This is (yet another) feature that would make refugees from MS Office much more comfortable and confident, as well as simply being a Good Thing In Itself. http://goo.gl/fj01mP Those using Writer for academic writing often have cases of needing the same document in endnote and footnote format. At the moment, this is cumbersome in the extreme with LibO Writer. Whether editing notes should be taken up as part of this enhancement request is a different matter. I take it this is simply about endnote/footnote conversion (and vice versa).
Bountysource: https://www.bountysource.com/issues/11639483-feature-request-formatting-new-feature-to-change-all-pagenotes-as-endnotes-or-backward
Copying from the link: "It takes 2 passes with normal search replace: class="footnote to class="endnote AND name="Footnote to name="Endnote (or vice versa)"
*** Bug 103249 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 143430 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
It is already possible to change Footnotes to de facto "Endnotes" by selecting Position > End of Document (Tools > Footnotes & Endnnotes > Footnotes). I would like to sugest the following enhancement (Bug 143430). Extend the properties of ENDNOTES so that they have the same options as FOOTNOTES (as seen in Tools > Footnotes & Endnnotes > Footnotes). In effect FOOTNOTES and ENDNOTES would become two varieties of the same thing. The essential difference being that Footnotes would have a default setting of "End of Page", while Endnotes would have a default setting of "End of document". This would allow Endnotes and Footnotes to become freely interchageable. It would also give users the option of having two sets of "Footnotes" with different anchor/character styles. The latter is sometimes needed "for parallel sequences of notes serving different purposes" (New Harts Rules, 2005, p. 315).
Sorry, my last comment was added in error. Could someone make it "obsolete". But +1 to the feature request.
Jim: would it be possible to add such a context menu items to the respective Navigator sections, next to the "Delete All ..."?
Created attachment 197553 [details] demonstration of enhancement request Thanks Mike for the heads up. Using how SwInsFootNoteDlg does this for one change and how selections are made by the Navigator delete all function - I think what is shown in demo is what is being asked? If so, I will send a patch that does this to gerrit for review.
(In reply to Jim Raykowski from comment #12) I believe that what you offer is exactly what was requested. Thank you!
Dumping more related requests from elsewhere: https://askubuntu.com/questions/482749/how-to-convert-all-footnotes-to-endnotes-in-libreoffice-writer https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/librewriter-convert-footnotes-into-endnotes-or-vice-versa-plus-macos-workflow-to-convert-manually/21472 https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/change-all-endnotes/58605 https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/how-to-switch-from-end-notes-to-foot-notes/40923
Jim Raykowski committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/1b49aa0bad6d1fce29f27112991ddd839600cd0d tdf#89352 Allow user to change all Footnotes to Endnotes and vice versa It will be available in 25.2.0. 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.
I've finally had the time (taken the time) to get the update and test this enhancement. After finding *HOW* to use it (it took me a while to find it in the Navigator - thought it would be with the Tools -> Footnote/Endnote settings...: could it *also* go there?), it seemed to work perfectly. HOWEVER! When you change (e.g.) foot -> end, the *STYLE* does not change. Writer still thinks the endnotes are footnotes, and there's no easy way I can see to convince it otherwise. So, you need to adjust the FOOTNOTE style in order to tweak the way your ENDNOTES look. This didn't happen with the "manual" method: https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-convert-all-footnotes-to-endnotes-and-vice-versa/1587/12?u=dajare I don't think it should happen with the automated method, either. This should probably be a "new bug"; I searched, but couldn't find that this precise issue had already been reported. INFO: Version: 25.8.2.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 580(Build:2) CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 6.14; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: en-GB (en_GB.UTF-8); UI: en-US Ubuntu package version: 4:25.8.2~rc2-0ubuntu0.24.04.1~lo1 Calc: threaded UBUNTU 24.04.3 LTS
(In reply to David from comment #16) > HOWEVER! When you change (e.g.) foot -> end, the *STYLE* does not change. > Writer still thinks the endnotes are footnotes, and there's no easy way I > can see to convince it otherwise. So, you need to adjust the FOOTNOTE style > in order to tweak the way your ENDNOTES look. Hi David, Looks like this is also the case when using the 'Edit Footnote/Endnote' dialog to convert footnote/endnote. The dialog can be accessed by right-click on a footnote/endnote character in a paragraph, then select the 'Footnote or Endnote...' menu item. I'll try to figure out how to make the style change automatically when converted.
Patch that changes the style to match the type is here: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/193066 Probably best to open a new bug report for this patch to be filed under since the issue preexisted the patch done for this enhancement request.
Will do! Thanks so much for your work on this feature/issue, Jim. Greatly appreciated! :)
I should have waited to say that until I'd filed the bug. Hope this looks okay: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169129