Footnotes and paragraph formatting

Callie Bertsche c.bertsche at tecplot.com
Wed Jan 28 08:38:52 PST 2009


Thank you! Awesome! My document looks so much better between these two
solutions.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bodvar Bjorgvinsson [mailto:bodvar at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 1:19 AM
> To: Callie Bertsche
> Cc: Art Campbell; framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Subject: Re: Footnotes and paragraph formatting
> 
> You can manage that too by setting the size and offset by 
> experimenting with the size and offset percentage in Format > Document
> > Text Options dialog box. Try changing the size of Superscript to 70%
> and the offset to something that will not change the line 
> height. Just remember that this will affect the whole 
> document for everything that is in Superscript.
> 
> Bodvar
> 
> 2009/1/27 Callie Bertsche <c.bertsche at tecplot.com>:
> > Thanks Art and others who replied! Such a great solution. It does 
> > drive my page count up (I wish there was also a way to make the 
> > footnote number itself not as "super" of a superscript in line with 
> > the text), but definitely a relief to easily fix the problem! How 
> > could I have missed that little checkbox.
> >
> > Callie
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> >
> >        From: Art Campbell [mailto:art.campbell at gmail.com]
> >        Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 9:39 AM
> >        To: Callie Bertsche
> >        Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> >        Subject: Re: Footnotes and paragraph formatting
> >
> >
> >        In the paragraph format, check the Fixed Space 
> checkbox. That 
> > turns off the extra space used by the superscript characters.
> >
> >        Art
> >
> >        Art Campbell
> > art.campbell at gmail.com
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> >
> >
> >        On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Callie Bertsche 
> > <c.bertsche at tecplot.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >                Does anyone know of a way to add footnotes in a FM 
> > document without
> >                disrupting the line spacing? Every time I add a 
> > footnote, it increases
> >                the line spacing just for the line that includes the 
> > footnote reference
> >                number. It's driving one of my product 
> owners crazy, so 
> > I'm looking for
> >                a solution. We noticed that in Word 2007, 
> this problem 
> > is solved by
> >                having a little larger default line spacing, 
> into which 
> > a footnote ref
> >                number comfortably fits. I tried increasing the line 
> > spacing of the
> >                paragraph in FM, though, and it hasn't helped. I've 
> > also tried adjusting
> >                the footnote settings in Format > Document > 
> Footnote 
> > properties, but
> >                the only thing I can do there to help is adjust the 
> > position to
> >                Superscript, Baseline, or Subscript, and although 
> > Baseline results in no
> >                line spacing change, the number no longer 
> looks like a 
> > footnote.
> >
> >                I'm grateful for any suggestions! If you reply to me 
> > directly I'll
> >                receive it the fastest, since I have Framers set on 
> > Digest mode.
> >                Thanks!
> >
> >                Callie Bertsche
> >                Technical Writer
> >
> >                Tecplot Inc. | Enjoy the View
> >
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