Issue 90842 - Permit to set a footnote anchor prefix/suffix (in the text area)
Summary: Permit to set a footnote anchor prefix/suffix (in the text area)
Status: CONFIRMED
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Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: formatting (show other issues)
Version: OOo 2.4.0
Hardware: Unknown All
: P3 Trivial with 8 votes (vote)
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Reported: 2008-06-18 12:04 UTC by mathieu_bonnet
Modified: 2013-10-03 22:23 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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Description mathieu_bonnet 2008-06-18 12:04:45 UTC
Hi,

I'd like to use parentheses, for footnote anchors (in the text area), for better
separation.

For example: Foobar(1), with «(1)» in superscript.


However, although we can add characters, before and after the number, in the
footnote area (in the footnote settings, the «Before»/«After» fields -the fact
it applies only to the footnote area, is not clear enough, by the way), we
cannot add characters to the footnote anchor (in the main content).


It is good to keep the two locations independent, regarding prefixes/suffixes.

For example, in my case, in the footnote area, I use: 1. Lorem ipsum.


There should then be a new set of «Before»/«After» fields, in the footnote
settings, to set a prefix/suffix, for footnote anchors.


A more global solution (I didn't search for an existing report, but I guess it
exists), would be to permit to defined prefixes/suffixes, for any element, like
in CSS (the «:before» and «:after» selectors, with the «content» property).


This is a low priority enhancement, as we can just add the prefix/suffix
manually, which is not too problematic, for footnotes.



Thanks in advance to everyone who will work on this.
Comment 1 eric.savary 2008-06-18 12:58:00 UTC
duplicate

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 21263 ***
Comment 2 rgb 2008-06-18 13:24:29 UTC
Issue 21263 talks about problems _importing_ M$word footnotes, but this issue is
about _formatting_ NEW footnotes.
mathieu_bonnet is talking about the following:

He heard quiet steps behind him. That didn't bode well.(1)
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1. The footnote

That is: a prefix and suffix on the _footnote anchor_ and NO prefix nor sufix on
the footnote mark.
IMHO, this is NOT a duplicate of issue 21263, but not being the original
reporter I cannot re-open this one.
Comment 3 mathieu_bonnet 2008-06-19 15:39:37 UTC
As said in issue 21263, the problems are different. issue 21263 is an import
problem for footnote mark prefixes, in the footnote area (which are already
supported).

This issue is about footnote anchors, in the text area (for which
prefixes/suffixes are not supported yet, and this is the subject of this issue).
Comment 4 eric.savary 2008-06-19 16:58:21 UTC
Reassigned to Requirements
Comment 5 Llelan D. 2013-10-03 22:23:46 UTC
I just ran into this problem while trying to format a book with OpenOffice to the specifications of a publisher. They require endnote anchors to be formatted as "[1]" superscripted, and endnote text as "1. Blah, blah".

This issue prevents authors from fulfilling the common specifications of their publishers. As such, the importance should be raised well above trivial (P3).

Since the specification by publishers of formatting details is so common, and the historical format of note anchors (especially endnotes) quite commonly differs from the bare superscripted number only allowed in OpenOffice, the type of this issue should be changed to BUG. The current implementation that lacks anchor before/after characters never fulfilled the common specifications historically required by publishers. As such, it is a design flaw or BUG.

Authors MUST meet the format specifications of their publishers. They have no choice in the matter and no publisher will make an exception because an open-source tool has a bug that does not allow for an historically common note anchor format.

This issues now has 8 votes, is critical to an author with a publisher, and has not seen any action for over five years. It needs to be immediately addressed with a much higher priority for the next release.