<html> <head> <base href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/"> </head> <body> <div> <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_UNCONFIRMED " title="UNCONFIRMED - Difficult to set/override footnote separator line direction" href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133820#c6">Comment # 6</a> on <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_UNCONFIRMED " title="UNCONFIRMED - Difficult to set/override footnote separator line direction" href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133820">bug 133820</a> from <a class="email" href="mailto:eyalroz@technion.ac.il" title="Eyal Rozenberg <eyalroz@technion.ac.il>"> Eyal Rozenberg</a> <pre>(In reply to Heiko Tietze from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=133820#c5">comment #5</a>) I gave a list of possible ways to achieve a certain result. Assuming we agree that it is difficult to figure out how and where to change the Page Style - it doesn't make sense to argue against all individual suggestions without positing an alternative suggestion. So, how do you propose to make changing the page-footnote-style more accessible? Now, to the individual points. > > 1.1 have the Page-Footnote-Style available directly (e.g. an extra tab in > > Footnote & Endnote settings), or > > Footnote properties are part of the page style So? they're also part of the Footnote & Endnote settings. You have an intersection of two sets of properties/settings here. > (use the Styles & Formatting sidebar > page styles Uh, this whole bug is about how people don't and won't go there to change the placement of the footnote separator. > to add/modify, eg. with right aligned lines on right sides- or vice versa for RTL). This brings up another, significant, issue: Most people don't know that there even is such a thing as an "Right page" and "Left page". In fact, I find it bothersome to even have to think about that. It's also confusing, because you ask yourself "what happens when content gets pushed forward from a Right page into a Left page? Or "Is that like verso vs recto? Odd vs Even?" etc. > > 1.2 have a button which opens up the Page-Footnote-Style settings in a > > (modal?) dialog > > We actually show the PS in the dialog, I was talking about a new dialog, with a new button. What do you mean by "the dialog"? > wouldn't it be a > bit "surprising" if you can switch to landscape in the footnote properties? ... this is why my suggestion here is for there be a separate dialog for _just_ toe Page-Footnote-Style; where you can't change the page style to landscape. > > 1.3 Indicate, with a text label, where one can change the > > Page-Footnote-Style settings. > > Showing the current PS in the drop down makes definitely sense. Not sure > that this is an ultimate solution for your problem, though. That's not what I suggested. I mean, for example, having the Footer pane of the Page Style dialog have a sentence saying something like "For Footnote Settings, switch to the Footnotes pane" or something like that. > > 2. Please consider having a right-click on the separator be a different > > thing than a right-click on the area of an actual footnote. > > As a direct formatting not possible, I guess. This suggestion is not about direct formatting. > And again, changing the page > style not via dedicated dialog is weird. Not sure why you mention that here. When I right-click the footnote separator, I don't need to say "Paste", "Paste Special", "Clone Formatting" etc - it doesn't belog</pre> </div> <hr> You are receiving this mail because: <ul> <li>You are the assignee for the bug.</li> </ul> </body> </html>