Footnotes

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#1

Hi.
How do I add a footnote when it doesn't have a reference.
I have some footnotes with and some without references (anchors).
Thanks,Steve

#2

steveedmonds wrote

How do I add a footnote when it doesn't have a reference.
I have some footnotes with and some without references (anchors).

Please clarify, with an example, exactly what is meant by "doesn't have a
reference" and "without references (anchors)" as this is not clear.
Footnotes consist of:

- Anchor (identifier in-line in the text, styled by the Footnote Anchor
character style).
- Identifier (in the footnote area, styled by the Foonote Characters
character style).
- Text (in the footnote area, styled by the Footnote paragraph style).

By way of example, do you mean you have a situation (e.g., natural sciences
referencing) where anchors can be specified as "2-4" in the text (i.e., some
anchors need to be hidden) but all three footnotes (identifier and text) are
shown in the footnote area? If so, this is reported as:

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

Best wishes, Owen.

#3

I'm not sure a note that doesn't relate to any point in the text makes sense, but ...
o At some suitable (random?) place in the text, go to Insert Footnote/Endnote... .
o Select Footnote and Character.
o Click the "..." button.
o Select a suitable font, so that you can find U+200B, the "zero-width space".
o Click OK and OK.
o Enter your footnote text.

You may have to tinker with spacing in the footnote itself. And I don't guarantee what will happen to the automatic numbering of any other footnotes: you may have to resort to manual numbering of those.

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker

#4

Hi Brian,

I'm not sure a note that doesn't relate to any point in the text makes
sense, but ...

neither am I

You may have to tinker with spacing in the footnote itself. And I don't
guarantee what will happen to the automatic numbering of any other
footnotes: you may have to resort to manual numbering of those.

Very clever! I've tested this hint and it works very nicely (I've added
the DT autotext for testing the footnote contents). The other footnotes
numbering stays normal. Great hint! Thanks a lot!

#5

Hi :slight_smile:
I thought Zotero was often used as an Extension/Add-on/Plug-in to improve
the handling of this sort of thing? The default one included in
LibreOffice is more than good enough for me but uni students and others
might benefit from adding in a specialist tool such as Zotero
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#6

Hi Tom,
Hi :slight_smile:
I thought Zotero was often used as an Extension/Add-on/Plug-in to improve
the handling of this sort of thing? The default one included in
LibreOffice is more than good enough for me but uni students and others
might benefit from adding in a specialist tool such as Zotero
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#7

Sorry about the half email before...

Hi Tom,
Hi :slight_smile:
I thought Zotero was often used as an Extension/Add-on/Plug-in to improve
the handling of this sort of thing? The default one included in
LibreOffice is more than good enough for me but uni students and others
might benefit from adding in a specialist tool such as Zotero
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

Can you explain to me, what Zotero has to do with footnotes? Zotero is a
tool, that can handle all the scientific references for you and format
everything in the specific format, that you are required to provide those.
It has really nothing to do with footnotes at all. Please have a look at
zotero.org for more information.

Sigrid

#8

Hi :slight_smile:
My post was a question. I was asking IF Zotero can handle this too or even
makes the problem evaporate.

Zotero has seemed to help a lot of people in the past who have had lots of
different problems with referencing things.

My money would be on Brian's answer being the one that fixes the problem,
especially since Jean-Francois has had success with it. Brian's answers
usually fix exactly the thing that the person asks about and quite often
deals with some of the side issues too, but not always. Owen's answer was
also good because by defining the technical definitions of the terms used
in the original question might help "draw out" the real question either for
Steve or for someone in the future looking through the archives and finding
this thread.

We still haven't heard back from Steve so it's uncertain if he has solved
the problem or if his problem doesn't fit into the neat definitions
outlined by Owen and Brian.

Sorry for the confusion there!
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile: