Hi :) Wow!! Errr, is that something that LaTex or Scribus might be better at? If so can they read and work with the output from LO? Regards from Tom :)
>________________________________ > From: Brian Barker <b.m.bar...@btinternet.com> >To: users@global.libreoffice.org >Sent: Thursday, 20 December 2012, 4:18 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] typographic freaks: footnotes not vertically >aligned to last line of body text in following page (as in good typographic >style) > >At 00:14 20/12/2012 +0800, Nobody Noname wrote: >> ... there is a thing that, if we cannot strictly to define as a BUG, is, at >> least, a "defect" regarding the right typography. I mean the behavior of >> footnotes versus the text body contained in subsequent pages. >> professionally formatted books, look like this [...] as you can see, >> footnotes (last footnote) are perfectly vertically aligned with the last >> line of text in following page, while if we insert a footnote in >> OpenOffice/Libreoffice, this is what we get [...] an horrible difference >> between footnote and last line of body text that result not aligned that >> makes appearance of documents with footnotes very ugly > >Each page has an area within its margins where text may appear. If there is >not sufficient space for a further line at the bottom of a page, it will be >carried over to the next page, possibly leaving a small amount of unused >vertical space within the text area of the page. If different pages have >different type sizes or different paragraph spacing - or even just a different >number of paragraphs - the bases of bottom lines may well not match up. In >the case of your example, the spacing and the rule before the footnote and the >reduced type size of the footnote itself all add up to mean that there can be >no guarantee that the bases of the bottom lines will match up. > >In order to correct this problem, you need to make small alteration to details >of one or other page. It may be that you can remedy things by changing the >bottom page margin slightly - but if you do that for the page style of the >whole document, you are likely to introduce similar problems on other pages. >The simplest solution may be to increase slightly the line spacing on the >second page. > >> if making this enhancement is not too hard, it will be a great step toward >> dtp for LibreOffice > >It's not clear what you want to happen here. Do you want the line spacing on >your second page to be increased slightly so as better to fill the page? Or >do you want the space before the footnote to be increased? Or both of these? >Or, if (as would be usual) you had more than one paragraph on each page, would >you want the paragraph spacing to be adjusted to suit? Or some combination of >all these? > >It's worth mentioning that you are comparing your word processor results with >- as you say - the appearance of a professionally produced book. In that >case, a quite separate process - "layout" - is carried out after the text is >finalised. This is done is layout software, not in word processing software. >Any modifications to the text - even minor ones - after this would potentially >upset the appearance, so this is done in the final stages of production. And >I doubt whether this is ever completely automated, in fact: rather, I imagine >that expert user of layout software makes minor adjustments to achieve the >sort of smart appearance that you crave. > >So you are asking for OpenOffice or LibreOffice to become layout software as >well as word processing software. I have no idea whether its developers would >wish to do this. > >I trust this helps. > >Brian Barker > > > >-- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+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/users/ >All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > > > > -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
