Hi
I am close to finishing updating this chapter, but have run into a problem and am unsure of the protocol.
I was about to write the instructions for formatting footnotes/endnotes when I encountered the problem.
To replicate, have a single sheet document with lots of paragraphs in it (blank or otherwise).
Insert a footnote into the page: "Insert > footnote/endnote".
Click "OK" in the next dialogue box, accepting the default settings. Scroll down to have the footnote in view.
Now edit the footnote. There are a number of ways to get here, but the quickest is to right-click in the page and then select "Page" from the context menu.
Select the 'Footnote' tab.
There are two sections to this page; 'Footnote area' and 'Separator line'.
To demonstrate the behaviour, change either, or both, the 'Space to text' dimension in the 'Footnote area' section, and/or the 'Spacing to footnote contents' dimension in the 'Separator line' section.
Now, if you click "OK", the settings on screen change when the dialogue box exits. That's fine.
Re-edit, 'right-click > Page'.
Change dimensions again, this time, click "Apply". As expected, the changes are executed on screen and the dialogue box stays open.
But ...
The dimensions in the dialogue box now change.
1. If you click "OK" to exit, these newer altered dimensions are applied.
2. You cannot, having clicked "Apply", change the dimensions to anything meaningful.
3. You can exit, having pressed "Apply", by clicking "Cancel" and having the changes which occurred on "Apply" remain in place.
4. Having pressed "Apply", you can then press "Reset", re-do the settings, and then click "OK" to exit.
There are a number of possibilities here I guess.
1. I'm doing something wrong.
2. There's something wrong with my set-up.
3. There's a problem with the Windows version (if it works correctly in other OS's)
4. There's a problem with the software.
So, if someone else can validate my experience, should I write it to instruct on how to do it trouble free, including what shouldn't be done?
Is this a bug, or just aberrant behaviour that needs no further action?. If a bug, what next? Write it warning of this bug?
Advice would be appreciated.
Thanks
John