In the end, could you solve this? At least, report a bug?
Regards Sylvia El vie, 10-02-2012 a las 16:30 +0000, John Smith escribió: > 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 > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
