How to Move (slightly) a Sidenote?

[dlampel]

I have searched and searched for a way to accomplish this, but have come up empty. The attached screenshot shows two sidenotes to the left of the page text. The second note has just two more lines in it that Publisher automatically places at the top of the next page. As a default behavior I think this makes sense, but these two notes are small, and there is plenty of room in the margin to nudge both of them upward so that the last two lines in the second note can be included in-place.

Is there any way to unlock these notes so they can be moved? I have tried unlocking the individual note layers, but they will not unlock on the page.

[MikeTO]

There is no way to direct Affinity to position sidenotes above the marker, it's a limitation of the feature.

If there is only one sidenote and you want to move it higher you can add blank lines to its end but that won't help with moving up the note below it.

 

[dlampel]

Thanks for confirming this, Mike. I have resigned myself to appending "(cont. on next page)" in such circumstances.

[sfriedberg]

I'll repeat a comment I made in another recent thread:  I really wish Affinity had adopted the direction of directing side/foot/end/bib-notes into a stream ("story") and let the streams be assigned to user-specified linked text frames together with some selection of pin/float controls that related the reference marker position to the reference body position (in different text frames).  The latter part would seem to be the harder part!

[MikeTO]

I'd be happy with just a "Allow sidenotes to be positioned above their marker" checkbox. With an option like this, Publisher could move a sidenote to the top of the frame if necessary to fit as many notes into the space as possible.