Document-wide settings for Footnotes, and differences between footnotes on the same page

[philipt18]

I was going over my footnotes, and I noticed that on a page with four short footnotes, the last one had extra space between it and the previous one. When I went to investigate, I noticed something else, which is that I can't always change the document-wide Footnote settings. That's actually something I've noticed before, but haven't asked about yet. I'm obviously missing what causes it to get greyed-out. I've attached a video which shows what I'm talking about.

 

 

[Oufti]

It's probably greyed out because these notes are no longer set according to the Document wide options but were in some way customized.  

It happens easily without being noticed, alack…

I don't know (or I don't remember) how to revert customized notes to document wide ones. 

[Oufti]

7 minutes ago, Oufti said:

I don't know (or I don't remember) how to revert customized notes to document wide ones. 

OK, you have to select the customized notes and open the menu in the 'hamburger' button next to the Notes tab label.

There, you choose to reset the selected notes to the parameters of the document (not sure about the translation…). 

[philipt18]

Thanks, I figure that out. So odd. It would be great if there was a way to see which footnotes have been customized. One side-effect of resetting all the footnotes to Default is that any text that is modified, such as adding Italics, is reset as well. So now I need to go through my 1200+ footnotes and fix all the formatting.

[philipt18]

Would love to see better reviewing of footnotes implemented. I suggested this last year (post link below) and now that I need to go through over 1200 footnotes and fix all the formatting, this would make it so much easier.

 

[Chris_06]

On 4/10/2024 at 8:24 PM, Oufti said:

OK, you have to select the customized notes and open the menu in the 'hamburger' button next to the Notes tab label.

There, you choose to reset the selected notes to the parameters of the document (not sure about the translation…). 

This does make a mess of all individual note formatting as @philipt18 states.

This should be a priority bug/enhancement IMHO.

[Chris_06]

Numbering is buggy as well. Changing the Restart every option after the fact results in very odd numbering in which the main text and note body numbers are very out of sync.

The problem appears to be that the underlying code does not reformat after the change.

Changing the Number format option to any other format and then back corrects the number sync issue.

Any option change made in the Document-wide settings should force a reformat of all note after every change.

[MikeTO]

7 hours ago, Chris_06 said:

Numbering is buggy as well. Changing the Restart every option after the fact results in very odd numbering in which the main text and note body numbers are very out of sync.

The problem appears to be that the underlying code does not reformat after the change.

Changing the Number format option to any other format and then back corrects the number sync issue.

Any option change made in the Document-wide settings should force a reformat of all note after every change.

You are likely changing numbering for specific notes and not for all notes.

First, revert all your notes to the document settings using the panel options menu command. Then click on a blank area of the page to remove the text cursor from any frame. Select Document-Wide and then change the number format option. It should be correct now.

Good luck

[Chris_06]

14 hours ago, MikeTO said:

You are likely changing numbering for specific notes and not for all notes.

Nope.

14 hours ago, MikeTO said:

First, revert all your notes to the document settings using the panel options menu command. Then click on a blank area of the page to remove the text cursor from any frame. Select Document-Wide and then change the number format option. It should be correct now.

That is exactly what I did.

The problem I describe exists regardless.

[MikeTO]

If you're able to share the document with me I'll take a look and figure it out for you.

[Chris_06]

Thank you, but there is no need. I have figured it out. The workaround I posted works fine. The bug exists, nevertheless.