Re: [libreoffice-users] footnotes numbering problem

Thank you Brian, thank you Piet!
Worked just fine (in the original large file too). I do appreciate your 
help, it saved me a lot of time and work.
If applied carefully, your method is a simple and useful tool to convert 
footnotes.

Best regards
Wojciech

W dniu 21.01.2016 o 12:21, Piet van Oostrum pisze:
> Brian Barker wrote:
>
>   > You could unzip the .odt file, extract
>   > content.xml, examine this to determine how
>   > Automatic and Character footnote anchors are
>   > differently represented, edit it as necessary,
>   > rezip the .odt file using the edited content.xml
>   > - and hope it works! But I don't recommend this.
>   >
> I tried this out and it appears to be easy:
>
> The text is in the content.xml file in the zip file.
> The footnotes are of the form
>
> <text:note-citation text:label="6">6</text:note-citation>
> followed by a <text:note-body>
> (For some reason all the footnote numbers are equal to the last one:6)
>
> In an automatic footnote, the text:label="6" part is missing. So removing this, changes them to 
> automatic. Then, they will be numbered A, B, C, ... If you want to change this to numbers, do it with Tools > 
> Footnotes > Numbering as has been mentioned by Brian in an earlier message.
>
> Of course you should do this on a copy of your file, not on the original (or have a copy saved).

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