From: msevior_at_physics.unimelb.edu.au
Date: Tue Nov 25 2003 - 16:13:22 EST
> 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:
>
Thanks very much for your detailed descriptions of your problems with
footnotes. I've heard anecdotally that people have had problems with them
but I haven't had such a nice description of the issues centralized in one
place. I'll address these concerns and fix the problems.
> 4608, "very large footnotes behave very badly" (they cause crashes and
> file corruption)
>
This is a problem if the footnote gets bigger than the size of a page. I
would be extremely surprised if anyone intentionaly wrote a document this
way. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
> 4707, "Can't select [or compose] to the right of a where a footnote was
> added" (this is pretty important!)
>
I agree this is important I thought it was fixed. I'll check to see if it
is and close the bug.
> 5495, "Footnote insertion and formatting" (can't change note formatting
> across whole document)
>
The format footnote dialog allows you to choose one of 12 different
footnote styles and to restart footnotes per page, or per section. I'll
check this again.
> 5598, "Footnote" (can't change footnote separator line from default
> long-and-centered format)
>
This has not been implemented true. If it's important I'll do it.
> 5716, "Footnotes" (can't jump from note text back to body text at site
> of note number)
>
This has not been implemented. It is actually not hard to do this. How do
you suggest this feature be implemented.
> 5773, 5774, 5775 (deleting both a note and its in-text note number is
> difficult and/or dangerous)
>
I'll check these out. It should not be either difficult 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!
>
Users should not have to make mistakes. I'll see what I can do.
Martin
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