Re: [libreoffice-users] typographic freaks: footnotes not vertically aligned to last line of body text in following page (as in good typographic style)

Hi :)
Thanks :)  It is this sort of improving co-operation between different products that i really like 
about OpenSource.  

Imo It beats  having 1 massively bloated program with tons of features that almost no-one ever uses 
and that ends up with those features creating problems or deteriorating due to changes elsewhere in 
the program.  Just split functionality off into programs (or in some cases just add-ons) that can 
have a dedicated community that are able to get on with developing things themselves without having 
to ask people that deal with completely unrelated functionality if they can have permission.  

Regards from
Tom :)






> ________________________________
> From: John Jason Jordan <johnxj@comcast.net>
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org 
> Sent: Thursday, 20 December 2012, 6:59
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] typographic freaks: footnotes not vertically aligned to last line 
> of body text in following page (as in good typographic style)
>
> On Thu, 20 Dec 2012 06:06:00 +0000 (GMT)
> Tom Davies <tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk> dijo:
>
> > Wow!!  Errr, is that something that LaTex or Scribus might be better
> > at?  If so can they read and work with the output from LO? 
>
> TeX, LaTeX, and their family can certainly do footnotes. However, I
> don't think they are as capable at importing LO/OOo text as Scribus is.
>
> Scribus will directly import text from Writer, and preserve styles in
> the process. You can even map the Writer styles to Scribus styles if
> you want. Scribus works very well with LO/OOo.
>
> However, the current stable version of Scribus (1.41) lacks footnotes
> and tables, although they are on the roadmap for the next release. As
> for footnotes, however, Scribus will preserve the superscripts in the
> text, and will convert the text of the footnotes to endnotes. After
> importing the text to Scribus you can cut the endnotes off the end of
> the story and paste in as a new story. The new story can be manually
> threaded to text frames at the bottom of the appropriate pages. Unless
> you have a gazillion footnotes, this works very well.
>
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