[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 137272] Make it less likely that user unwillingly loses footnote and endnote font size inheritance from paragraph

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137272

--- Comment #30 from TH <thuck777 at yahoo.com> ---
I write a great deal, being an author of many books (under a pen name), which
are heavily documented.

I also have a software architect and engineer, as well as a database architect,
though NOT in the tools / language used for LibreOffice.

>From a UI and UX perspective, and as a writer, it does NOT make sense to be
able to set a fixed font size for footnotes or endnotes ACCIDENTALLY (i.e.,
without intent to do so), and it also does not make sense that undoing such a
change should be difficult or inobvious.

Here's my suggestion: Provide a check box next to the Size for the font in the
Anchor style, which indicates Calculated.  If that box is selected (and it
should be, by default), then changing the font size explicitly would be
disabled.  If unselected and the Size is subsequently changed, then re-checking
Calculated should remove any "under the hood" explicit font size for the anchor
style.  This approach would provide the best of all worlds: the ability to use
an explicit font size if desired for the anchor text, and the ability to
understand what has occurred and easily undo that explicit specification,
reverting to the default calculations for the anchor size, should that be
needed / desired.

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