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I used Pagemaker until my XP computer died - since 1987 actually. I have replaced it with Writer - on both Ubuntu (I don't want to spend the time setting up Wine) and Vista (PM does not run properly on Vista). All necessary functionality exists - sections, styles (page, text, etc.) - and my publication is identical to the PM one. Identical, with one exception - in PM, as footnotes are not used, formatting the 'footnote' numbers was a no-brainer. Within Writer, I want to use footnotes as it saves a whack of time, but is it possible to alter the numbering of the footnotes themselves (i.e. not the numbers in the body of the document) so the numbers are superscripts?

Thanks for any help you can provide.

yuppers wrote:I used Pagemaker until my XP computer died - since 1987 actually. I have replaced it with Writer - on both Ubuntu (I don't want to spend the time setting up Wine) and Vista (PM does not run properly on Vista). All necessary functionality exists - sections, styles (page, text, etc.) - and my publication is identical to the PM one. Identical, with one exception - in PM, as footnotes are not used, formatting the 'footnote' numbers was a no-brainer. Within Writer, I want to use footnotes as it saves a whack of time, but is it possible to alter the numbering of the footnotes themselves (i.e. not the numbers in the body of the document) so the numbers are superscripts?

Thanks for any help you can provide.

Stylist ( F11) > Character Styles > Footnote Character > Right click > Modify > Position > Superscript.

Thanks, Rideaujrk. It workedf like a charm.

You can also set the relative size and position of the footnote superscript in the Footnote Character Style dialogue on the Position Tab.

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Bhikkhu Pesala wrote:You can also set the relative size and position of the footnote superscript in the Footnote Character Style dialogue on the Position Tab.

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Thanks, it's obvious [now] but I never noticed it before.

I have used your suggestion:

Stylist ( F11) > Character Styles > Footnote Character > Right click > Modify > Position > Superscript.

and it has not worked. I am using Windows XP and OpenWorld 3.0 in OpenOfficeWriter. What am I doing wrong.

ashlack wrote:I have used your suggestion:

Stylist ( F11) > Character Styles > Footnote Character > Right click > Modify > Position > Superscript.

and it has not worked. I am using Windows XP and OpenWorld 3.0 in OpenOfficeWriter. What am I doing wrong.

I don't know: what is OpenWorld?

The instructions work fine for me in OOo3.0.11

I do not know whether this applies to AOO; I switched to LO for the very reason that they announced finally giving full OpenType support. With this, getting true superscript numbering, not fakes (resized regular numbers) is finally possible. Edit the character style for footnote anchors. Next to the font name, add ‘:sups=1’, e.g. ‘EB Garamond:sups=1’. (Strictly speaking, ‘=1’ is probably not necessary, but I like to keep everything formatted the same way.) To test whether you have gotten true superscripts, next to a footnote, type Alt+251, 253 or 252 and compare them; they should be exactly the same. Additional features are added by separating them with an ampersand, e.g. ‘EB Garamond:liga=1&calt=1&onum=1&pnum=1&swsh=1’ (enabling regular ligatures, contextual alternatives, old style numbering and making these proportionally sized, and swashes. For a more or less complete overview of all the features and how to implement them, go to Adobe’s overview.