Long Footnotes "Buried" in OpenOffice Writer Plugin Note Editor

mbruffey

When I have a long footnote, the text ends up buried so that I cannot scroll down to view/proof/edit the content. I have attempted to create a pic to show what I mean: http://mbruffey.home.comcast.net/~mbruffey//pics/editor_crop.pdf . Thx, Mark

mbruffey

Still trying to figure this out. Is it possible that my problem is a screen resolution problem, as it does not appear many, if any, have the problem I have noted? Perhaps it is simply that few disciplines require documents with lengthy footnotes? In this case, it is simply that nobody else has bumped up against it yet. I would think history (George Mason???????), if any of the disciplines, would have long footnotes (read any article in the journals for Church History for example).

mbruffey

Workaround. BTW, the problem exists in Openoffice under Linux as well as under M$.

Clearly, the footnote view/editor is crippled. If you have a lengthy note, customary in some disciplines, a good portion of it can become buried in the edit/view window. Even if you do not need to edit the note in the window, you may want to proof what you have added via the prefix/suffix fields (to avoid, for instance, a double-period).

Here is the workaround--very simple and discovered already by others no doubt. Simply goto the suffix field for the last source you are citing and type or paste into it a bunch of garbage. This will cause the software to recalc the window/scrollbar positions with the result that you can actually see your entire note and some of the garbage while the rest of the garbage is buried in crippled-zotero-plugin-never-never-land. When satisfied with the note, delete the garbage from the suffix field. Tada!

LMB

adamsmith

thanks for posting this - for what its worth I do think it'd be nice if this would work without a workaround.

mbruffey

Just checking. I can't see that any progress has been made on this particular issue, at least under Linux, in the past two years. Anything pending? Thx, LMB

fbennett

You can edit Zotero references directly in the word processor now, so the limitations of the edit/preview window are less of an issue.

adamsmith

but it's still an issue as a preview for using prefix/suffix (which is, after all, what we recommend people do).

fbennett

True.