Re: Footnotes/Endnotes: Have They Worked for Anyone?

From: Andy Korvemaker (lists.abiword_at_akorvemaker.fastmail.fm)
Date: Fri Nov 28 2003 - 10:54:17 EST

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    I'm jumping into this conversation a bit late, but here's my experiences
    with footnotes.

    This past summer I spent a bit of time attempting to write a term paper
    in AbiWord (version 1.9-something-or-other on Debian). I had a few
    problems.

    The main problem I had was that after a few pages of text and footnotes,
    the number would mess up. I would start getting duplicate numbers. All of
    a sudden, entering my 8th footnote (for example), it would get numbered
    "1" and appear on the first page. Or it would get numbered "4" and appear
    below the previous number 4. I couldn't figure out any pattern, and I
    didn't have time to fight with it.

    One workaround I found was exporting it as RTF and then reloading it.
    This seemed to cause all the footnotes to get renumbered and resorted. It
    wasn't ideal, but it did help.

    That was the main thing. I hope to get some time soon to see if this
    behavior still happens and to fill out some bug reports if I can find any
    patterns.

    Apart from this issue, I would use AbiWord for my major papers. It may
    work now (with v2.0.1 out), but I haven't had time to test it again.

    andy
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