[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 88709] Allow Multiple References to Same Footnote

[Jean-Francois Nifenecker]

Le 24/01/2015 11:19, bugzilla-daemon at freedesktop.org a écrit :
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88709
> 
> --- Comment #7 from Heiko Tietze <heiko.tietze at user-prompt.com> ---
> Some time ago I faced the problem as well and solved it with fake footnotes.
> But cross-referencing is in fact the best solution. When pasting a footnote you
> could internally insert the reference and superscript the text. Makes sense for
> usability POV because the normal incrementing is not broken in this way.
> But in my 4.3 installation this reference is not updated if I add another
> footnote before the referenced (e.g."He heard quiet steps1 behind him2. That
> didn't bode1 well." The last 1 is a (working) link to footnote 2). Update
> fields (F9) does not help, page preview is the same.
> And when I remove the footnote its reference needs to be cleared. Otherwise I
> get an "Error: Reference source not found". So putting all together I would say
> we need a new type of reference (or special treatment for refs to footnotes).
> 

Using a cross-ref is the way to go. The newly inserted cross-ref should
be set with the Footnote Anchor character style instead of
hard-formatting it using superscript.

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Jean-Francois Nifenecker, Bordeaux