Vanishing footnotes
Posted: 2004-11-13 17:05:35
So I downloaded 2.1 in hopes of bug fixes (specifically, I have an assignment to produce a tri-fold brochure, landscape orientation, and the current refusal-to-save-the-column-width behavior is irritating). No fixes which directly impact what I'm trying to do right now, anyhow.
So for the first time I tried generating a footnote. Two problems:
. the superscript causes the line to drop, and there's no way to adjust the superscript height so that doesn't happen (this was one of the things I loved about WriteNow, now long defunct).
. the paragraph text prints behind the footer, visually, so that text is obscured by the footer instead of continuing immediately to the next page.
I want to like Nisus. I really do. I hate the evil empire, and I was happy to pay for Nisus in 1.x, even though it was clearly very much in development. But it seems to be very buggy. I can't rely on it to do very straightforward word-processing tasks (like scrolling more than three lines on one mouse click, or displaying a saved document just as it looked before, or copying text from one document to another without losing font info).
One thing which annoys me is that I can place the cursor, and go set the font to what I want, and then start tying and find that the font setting didn't happen. In order to change a font where there is no text, I have to type the text, select it, and change it. If I do this to a line of text, and then backspace to the beginning of the line, the font reverts to the font from the previous line. Very annoying.
Anyway, I didn't mean to turn this into a rant. I love being able to save to pdf, and it has gotten me through some basic production needs.
Anyone got a fix for the text-behind-footnote thing?
-Speireag.
So for the first time I tried generating a footnote. Two problems:
. the superscript causes the line to drop, and there's no way to adjust the superscript height so that doesn't happen (this was one of the things I loved about WriteNow, now long defunct).
. the paragraph text prints behind the footer, visually, so that text is obscured by the footer instead of continuing immediately to the next page.
I want to like Nisus. I really do. I hate the evil empire, and I was happy to pay for Nisus in 1.x, even though it was clearly very much in development. But it seems to be very buggy. I can't rely on it to do very straightforward word-processing tasks (like scrolling more than three lines on one mouse click, or displaying a saved document just as it looked before, or copying text from one document to another without losing font info).
One thing which annoys me is that I can place the cursor, and go set the font to what I want, and then start tying and find that the font setting didn't happen. In order to change a font where there is no text, I have to type the text, select it, and change it. If I do this to a line of text, and then backspace to the beginning of the line, the font reverts to the font from the previous line. Very annoying.
Anyway, I didn't mean to turn this into a rant. I love being able to save to pdf, and it has gotten me through some basic production needs.
Anyone got a fix for the text-behind-footnote thing?
-Speireag.