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 <tomc...@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 <ran...@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 >> >> -- >> J. Randal Matheny * http://randal.us/ >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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 > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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 > -- Kevin B. O'Brien zwiln...@gmail.com http://google.me/+kevinobrien Facebook is Evil. Cancel your account. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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
