[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 145239] Customize footnote symbols

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=145239

Heiko Tietze <heiko.tietze at documentfoundation.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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         Resolution|---                         |WONTFIX
                 CC|libreoffice-ux-advise at lists |heiko.tietze at documentfounda
                   |.freedesktop.org            |tion.org
             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
           Keywords|needsDevAdvice, needsUXEval |
          Component|LibreOffice                 |Writer

--- Comment #10 from Heiko Tietze <heiko.tietze at documentfoundation.org> ---
(In reply to Walter Tuvell from comment #8)
> As for references, Google for "sequence of symbols used for footnotes". 

http://printwiki.org/Footnote

"1. asterisk (*), 2. dagger (†), 3. double dagger (††), 4. paragraph symbol
(¶), 5. section mark (§), 6. parallel rules (||), 7. number sign (#)."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Note_(typography)

"...the traditional order of these symbols in English is *, †, ‡, §, ‖, ¶."

> ...the first 4 hits showed 4 different sequences

Which is a good reason to pre-define the sequence. CMOS did that and we follow.

> But note also my comment about "🞶=U+1F7B6 ≠ *=U+002A".
Have seen it. Quite dangerous for a hard-coded character using a variable font.


So again: the idea is charming, brings all the flexibility we want to offer,
and might be not too difficult to implement. But we better do not allow
deviations from the standard.
If you want to use the "MEDIUM SIX SPOKED ASTERISK" just do it without the
automatic numbering.

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