Hi Lailah
No, the problem described wasn't sorted out. An explanation was offered
of what was happening by Mark. See the thread on Nabble for his opinion.
A cautionary note about it has been written in the Chapter 7 User Guide
to inform users of this unexpected behaviour, and a method of avoiding
the issue is described.
I haven't raised a bug report. I guess it's something I can look into
doing if it's not already out there.
Regards
John
On 15/03/2012 11:36, Lailah wrote:
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
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