[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 54393] Add option to prevent that Footnotes and Endnotes are always hidden together with anchor

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54393

--- Comment #18 from Werner Johann <werner-j at gmx.at> ---
Dear Justin L.,
thanks for your efforts. 

Microsoft Word doesn't hide the footnotes/endnotes even if one hides the whole
paragraph containing the anchor. You have to hide all notes separately and in
case that all notes at one page should be hidden, you manually have to hide the
footnote separator in an extra step. So Microsoft's solution maybe is somewhat
suboptimal too, but it at least allows the user to get all results, he wants.
Libreoffice doesn't even offer a tedious way not to hide the note together with
the anchor. There is no possibility at all.

Anyhow, if one uses automatically numbered footnotes/endnotes hiding delivers
omited numbers within the numbering sequence in Libreoffice Writer and in
Microsoft Word. So, apart from special case (e.g. the accurate reproduction of
a historic document containing a numbering mistake) hiding the footnote
together with the anchor only makes sense in case of manual symbol anchors,
which are not numbered.

Although your approach, to hide the footnote only automatically together with
the main text, when a larger text passage is hidden, is reasonable, it isn't
easy to implement, because the length of that string can vary even if one
doesn't want to hide the footnotes. For instance if I want to insert more
references according to the Vancouver citing system and want to have instead of
[1],[2],[3],[4],...[10] the abreviated form [1-10].
OK, 10 references at the same position may be regarded as an extrem example,
but I have already seen it in some publications. 

I suggested already the implementation of an additional option
(Menu->Tools->Options) where the user can choose whether the note should be
hidden as in the past (of OpenOffice and Libreoffice) or should have to be
hidden extra like in Microsoft Office.
(This option would imply the creation of an additional new variable for a
document or a template, which is used to decide wether the notes are hidden
together with anchor or not. The default [no variable defined yet] would have
to be to handle it as in the past)

This of course is not just a bug fix but a new feature, which nontheless would
also improve the compatibility for users changing from Microsoft to
Libreoffice.

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