Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 18326
Footnote number greater than 99 are missing extra space before text
Last modified: 2013-02-07 22:33:22 UTC
It appears that OO allocates three spaces for footnote numbers (in the footnote, not in the text). While this allows for one space between the number and the text for footnotes under 100, after 100, the number goes right up against the text. I haven't found an easy workaround for this behavior. It seems like the spacing between the footnote number and the footnote text should remain the same for footnotes over 100.
Just tried it. It does indeed do this. It is certainly unproffessional looking. Needs to be fixed.
Actually, it turns out there is a work-around. If you change the indent for the footnote style to a greater number (say, 0.26") and change the first line indent to an equally smaller number (-0.26"), as long as there is now enough room for another digit in the footnote, it fixes the problem, although it makes perhaps too large a space for the footnotes < 100. So the quick fix is to make a separate footnote style for those footnotes > 99 and those < 100.
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In fact we have no defect here. May it would be better to make the footnote dialog more intuitive. You can adjust the space from the footnote under the Menu Tools - Footnotes... Just enter one or two space in the After Field. If you want to adjust only one footnote, then you can drag by mouse the below rectangle on the top ruler and move it to the right. The rectangle above can be dragged back.
A few problems with this solution: 1) As you noted, difficult to know that this is how you go about fixing it. 2) Putting one space after the footnote number means multiple line footnotes won't be lined up properly. I think it is generally expected that the footnote will line up flush left with itself, i.e., like indent. If you add spaces after footnote number with tools->footnote the first line (text) of the footnote will be to the right of the text itself. 3) Ideally--I think--you would want the extra space to appear for footnotes over 99 but not before that. Of course this could be done manually, but I don't think anyone is going to want the footnote number to run right into the text, so it would be better if the default behavior would be to add the space for footnotes over 99. Another way to do it that I imagine might be more difficult would be to have the style change for all footnotes if the total number of footnotes in over 99. Otherwise you get the perhaps awkward look of the text of footnote 99 being aligned differently than the text of footnote 100.
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while comment of hi looks like a solution it's not the very best. caus for footnotes 1-9 there is a larger space between number and text - but would be good, to have one fix space, I think. see issue 61783 too.
Btw - I would like to get footnotenumbers in the same font, font-size and font-style as footnotetext automatically (use character-format for footnotenumber from paragraph-format of footnotetext) Same holds for paragraph-numbering - although the numbers are displayed in the same font and size, but if the heading is underlined, the number is not, which looks not really nice for me.
*** Issue 92959 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
I have the idea that this issue is just a shrinkage and spacing style tuning problem: Here's a fix I found (I hope I will translate it right, because I use a french OO). To make all the footnotes' text aligned regardless of the footnotes' number number of digits, you can try the following : - footnote style/spacing and shrinkage/ shrinkage before text = +0,7cm - footnote style/spacing and shrinkage/ shrinkage first line = -0,7cm You can try several shrinkage values as long as they are opposite values. If a footnote is made of several paragraph and you want the following paragraph aligned with the first, create a footnote style named "footnote style - following", with (in my example): - footnote style/spacing and shrinkage/ shrinkage before text = +0,7cm - footnote style/spacing and shrinkage/ shrinkage first line = 0 Then declare in the original "footnote style" : -following style = "footnote style - following" Therefore I think that setting the footnote style defaut values in OOo should be enough?
As of today (4/25/2010) this problem still exists, and I find it a real nuisance.
The space for the footnote numbering in the footnote is the distance from the left margin to the beginning of the text. This space is determined by the "Indent & Spacing" setting of the paragraph style of the footnote. If you need a larger spacing, set it in the paragraph style "Footnote". If you need different styles for 1-9, 10-99 and 100-…, then simple define new styles.
To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on my owner to the owner "requirements".
Linux Libertine G has a font feature for right aligned footnote numbers, plus it supports true superiors. Set "Linux Libertine G:algn=1&sups=1" extended font name in Footnote Characters character style and Normal position instead of superscript to use these features, see http://www.numbertext.org/linux
Every footnote characters should be followed by a tab. Add a gap by default (tab, value= 0,50 cm) between number (footnote characters) and text in footnotes. This allows greater control of space between the number and footnotes (useful when the note number to reach three figures). The picture shows the default settings and the proposal(Please see the attached). It may also be useful for the issue 13308. A simple solution would be to provide a set of macro like these, but written for Writer. http://word.tips.net/Pages/T001691_Automatically_Adding_Tabs_in_Footnotes.html
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