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Chuck McKnight
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 Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 3:13 pm Post subject: Problem with footnotes style (before and after fields) |
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I am trying to format my footnotes so that they are lowercase letters enclosed in parentheses.
To accomplish this, I am adding an opening parenthesis to the "Before" field and a closing parenthesis to the "After" field of the Footnotes settings. This effectively changes the style for the footnote itself; however, I am primarily concerned with changing the style of the footnote anchor in the actual text. Unfortunately, it does not affect that at all. It just appears in the text as a superscript letter with no parentheses.
How can I fix this?
I am running OOo 3.1.0 build 9339 on Windows 7 RC.
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ftack
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I would probably just insert the braces at both sides of the footnote anchor, i.e. insert the braces manually.
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jrkrideau
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| Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 8:15 am Post subject: Re: Problem with footnotes style (before and after fields) |
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| Chuck McKnight wrote: | I am trying to format my footnotes so that they are lowercase letters enclosed in parentheses.
To accomplish this, I am adding an opening parenthesis to the "Before" field and a closing parenthesis to the "After" field of the Footnotes settings. This effectively changes the style for the footnote itself; however, I am primarily concerned with changing the style of the footnote anchor in the actual text. Unfortunately, it does not affect that at all. It just appears in the text as a superscript letter with no parentheses.
How can I fix this?
I am running OOo 3.1.0 build 9339 on Windows 7 RC.
Thanks for the help! |
I think you're out of luck. It does not look like one can add to the anchor style. Why the [ ] anyway? I would normally interpret something like [1] in the text as a reference not a footnote although I suppose using letters gets around this.
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Chuck McKnight
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| Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2009 8:16 pm Post subject: |
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Okay, I guess I'll just have to do it manually then. (Maybe a good suggestion for a feature to add to future versions?)
The reason I need the parentheses is because the project I am working on includes a ton of different types of special notations, and I need something else specific to set apart the footnotes and make them distinct. But yeah, I guess manually will work.
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