Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 64561
Illogical ordering of footnotes in tables spanning muliple pages.
Last modified: 2013-08-07 14:44:35 UTC
When using tables, and footnoting the text within tables, the footnotes go in numeric order from the top to the bottom of the farthest left column, then continue in the same fashion on the next column to the right, and so on. The problem is when a table spans multiple pages, one ends up with footnotes in chaotic order at the bottom of each page. It would be better to "break" the columns of every table at the end of each page. True, one could manually create separate tables to avoid this problem, but doing so would make the tables difficult to edit. I believe this problem also applies to multi column page layouts.
Created attachment 35854 [details] Awkward arrangement of footnotes on pages 1 and 2
In the attached document, footnote 12 on page 1 should really be footnote 7. There is plenty of room on page 1 to add this footnote, but due to the way the footnotes are numbered the footnote is displayed on the following page.
I only see mixed footnote numbers on page 3 (after the idle formatting to 7 pages) stemming from described behaviour, so confirming with 680_m162 on WinXP Pro SP2. Additionally I get a hang of OOo when attempting to scroll the document while idle formatting occurs (while the page size is changing).
MRU->FME: On page 2 you can see that there is something wrong. Footnote anchor 10 and 12 (in right column) is visible, but not anchor 11. It is, because the table does not break correctly in this point; there are some lines moving below the bottom table border of this page.
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move to target 3.x according http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Target_3x