Re: [libreoffice-users] Side notes and footnotes

I think Frames would be the best answer to both problems. A Frame can
be set up to have two columns, for instance, and there is one that
would work well for side notes too I believe.

On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 8:43 AM, Tom Davies <tomcecf@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi :)
> If it's not been done already then it might be worth posting a fresh
> new bug-report about this but using the LibreOffice bug-tracker rather
> than the AOO one.
>
> LO develops far faster and code clean-up has fixed things or smoothed
> things out without anyone directly focussing on some of the fixes that
> have just 'magically' happened.  So, now it's difficult to know if
> long-running bugs really do still exist and worth spending time on.
>
> As i understand it there are people going through long-running bugs
> but it's painfully slow and boring.  So, we need to free-up those
> people by just reposting long-running bugs from OOo that we notice
> still exist in LO to give them even just 1 or 2 less to run through
> Quality Assurance techniques with.
>
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
>
>
> On 5 February 2014 09:33, J. Randal Matheny <randal@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> > Five and a half years ago, I had a question, two actually, about side
> > notes and footnotes.
> >
> > The question on footnotes was this: can footnotes be placed in two
> > columns when the text is in a single column?
> >
> > Then side notes: Is there a workable option to have side notes rather
> > than (or in addition to) footnotes? A good soul by name of Andrew came
> > up with using fields, but it appeared to be time-consuming to add them.
> > There were also discussions about frames and tables, but as a non-techie
> > I got lost in some of the details.
> >
> > In the intervening period, I thought perhaps there might have been some
> > progress on these questions in LO development. And maybe I've learned a
> > bit as well.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Randal
> >
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