Footnote spacing in 2nd line wonky when centered.
Posted: 2020-12-14 12:17:09
Hi,
I’m having trouble spacing footnotes on second and third lines.
Background:
My book has two design decisions that can’t be changed now, because of the rest of the book:
1. There are multiple footnotes per line.
2. The footnotes paragraph is centered on the page.
To look balanced, I want them to have equal space between each FN.
If they’re all on one line, I can space them nicely by putting tabs in the ruler, like this:
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But the problem is I have several pages that require two or more lines of these footnotes; and it ends up looking like this:
-
It turns out that Nisus applies the SAME tabs on all the lines, so on the second and later lines also. Spacing looks wonky on those lines.
I’ve read the manual and tried this in multiple different ways. Changing styles doesn’t help; using paragraph returns at end of first line doesn’t help.
What I seem to need are either:
a. A way to use spaces instead of tabs between footnotes. OR
b. A way to have different tab settings on the second or third lines.
I can’t find figure out how to do either of these.
I should note that I ran into this same problem four years ago on a single page, and solved it then by creating a single pseudo-footnote, and doing all the footnote citations on that page and references manually, and setting up my own style paragraph in the pseudo-footnote, with spacing the way I want it.
But this time I’ve got six different pages that would require this, so it would be far more convenient if I could leave the footnotes as they are, active.
I’m using version 2 of NWP, so if it turns out that this still isn’t possible in V2 I’d also like to know if there’s been any change that makes it possible in version 3.
Thanks for any information or suggestions!
wF.
I’m having trouble spacing footnotes on second and third lines.
Background:
My book has two design decisions that can’t be changed now, because of the rest of the book:
1. There are multiple footnotes per line.
2. The footnotes paragraph is centered on the page.
To look balanced, I want them to have equal space between each FN.
If they’re all on one line, I can space them nicely by putting tabs in the ruler, like this:
-
But the problem is I have several pages that require two or more lines of these footnotes; and it ends up looking like this:
-
It turns out that Nisus applies the SAME tabs on all the lines, so on the second and later lines also. Spacing looks wonky on those lines.
I’ve read the manual and tried this in multiple different ways. Changing styles doesn’t help; using paragraph returns at end of first line doesn’t help.
What I seem to need are either:
a. A way to use spaces instead of tabs between footnotes. OR
b. A way to have different tab settings on the second or third lines.
I can’t find figure out how to do either of these.
I should note that I ran into this same problem four years ago on a single page, and solved it then by creating a single pseudo-footnote, and doing all the footnote citations on that page and references manually, and setting up my own style paragraph in the pseudo-footnote, with spacing the way I want it.
But this time I’ve got six different pages that would require this, so it would be far more convenient if I could leave the footnotes as they are, active.
I’m using version 2 of NWP, so if it turns out that this still isn’t possible in V2 I’d also like to know if there’s been any change that makes it possible in version 3.
Thanks for any information or suggestions!
wF.