Footnotes/Endnotes: Have They Worked for Anyone?

From: itself_at_americanstate.org
Date: Tue Nov 25 2003 - 14:55:48 EST

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    Hi -- I am a student who has been downloading Abiword every so often for
    at least a couple of years now, and I am impressed by the progress it
    has made. I would really like to migrate to a single word processor that
    I can use at home under Linux and at school under Windows (Abiword runs
    nicely from a Zip disk in the Windows computer labs; don't try this with
    OpenOffice.org).

    I'd move to AbiWord in a flash if it weren't for one problem: footnotes
    and endnotes. They've been listed as a feature since Version 1.1x, but
    they've always seemed to be more broken than working -- even in my copy
    of the just-released 2.0.1 (Windows version).

    Maybe it's just me? Well, I've roamed around the archives of this
    discussion list, checked the Twicki, and searched the Web at large for
    anyone reporting success using notes in AbiWord. No luck.

    Hence my question: Has anyone out there actually written a footnoted
    term paper, or any similar document that relies heavily on footnotes or
    endnotes, using AbiWord? If so, how did you do it? And if you had
    problems along the way, how did you solve them?

    By the way, here is a list of problems I've experienced. I won't
    describe them in great detail because they all seem to be the subjects
    of open bug reports:

    4608, "very large footnotes behave very badly" (they cause crashes and
    file corruption)

    4707, "Can't select [or compose] to the right of a where a footnote was
    added" (this is pretty important!)

    5495, "Footnote insertion and formatting" (can't change note formatting
    across whole document)

    5598, "Footnote" (can't change footnote separator line from default
    long-and-centered format)

    5716, "Footnotes" (can't jump from note text back to body text at site
    of note number)

    5773, 5774, 5775 (deleting both a note and its in-text note number is
    difficult and/or dangerous)

    I'll be happy to hear that everybody else has learned how to use notes
    successfully in AbiWord and learn that I'm just having trouble with my
    own dumb mistakes. Thanks for all responses!

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