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Don't worry, no concern about getting out your smoked glass helmet. Something you can see in the screenshots of the footnote frames above is the small yellow rectangle at the joint of our original text frame and this new footnote frame. This indicates the two frames are welded, and as you might expect you can't pull them apart. If you move one, the other moves right along with it.
Don't worry, no concern about getting out your smoked glass helmet. Something you can see in the screenshots of the footnote frames above is the small yellow rectangle at the joint of our original text frame and this new footnote frame. This indicates the two frames are welded, and as you might expect you can't pull them apart. If you move one, the other moves right along with it.


This might seem like grouping, but it has some different characteristics. You can resize the main text frame, either by using the mouse or the settings in Properties > XYZ, but if you narrow it, the footnote frame also narrows. If you shorten it, the footnote frame stays right against the bottom of the shortened frame.
This might seem like grouping, but it has some different characteristics. You can resize the main text frame, either by using the mouse or the settings in ''Properties > XYZ'', but if you narrow it, the footnote frame also narrows. If you shorten it, the footnote frame stays right against the bottom of the shortened frame.


On the other hand, you can move the footnote frame, either with the mouse or with X-Pos and Y-Pos spinboxes, but you cannot ''directly'' edit the height or width of this welded footnote frame.
On the other hand, you can move the footnote frame, either with the mouse or with X-Pos and Y-Pos spinboxes, but you cannot ''directly'' edit the height or width of this welded footnote frame.

Revision as of 13:50, 16 June 2013

This page is an attempt to describe the creation of footnotes in 1.5.0svn. It mainly represents a series of observations on creating and editing footnotes.

Use Edit Contents Mode

This isn't just a recommendation, it's currently the only way to create footnotes. You will not find any method in Story Editor.

Elements of Footnote Creation

  • Edit > Styles – I am mentioning this first, since even though it's not central or absolutely required for creating footnotes, probably with few exceptions you will want to create a paragraph or character style for your footnotes, even if it's just a variant of your main text style.
  • Edit > Marks – this brings up the Marks Manager dialog. Until you actually have some footnotes (one kind of Mark), you won't see anything to do here.
  • Edit > Notes Styles – here is where you will be applying your paragraph and character styles to create Notes Styles.
  • Item > Welding – for the moment, don't worry about what welding has to do with Scribus or footnotes. We'll get there soon enough.
  • Insert > Marks – this as you might expect is where the action is in actually inserting a footnote mark somewhere in the text. You might just start at this point, by beginning to create footnotes, but it's still going to be important sooner or later to understand those other aspects of footnotes.

Insert > Marks

Footnotes.png Let's just quickly show what happens here, realizing that once you get an understanding of footnotes, your workflow may not necessarily begin here. Here is a two-column layout of some sample text we'll use for our examples. Remember that you need to be Edit Contents mode to insert a footnote – you will find Insert > Marks greyed out if you're not. So double-click at the point you wish to insert a footnote.

Now select Insert > Marks > Foot/End Note. Two things happen, only one of which you will be aware of. Your screen focus will change to the bottom of your frame, and you see this:

Footnotes2.png

What you can't see in this screenshot is that your cursor has moved here so that you can begin making your footnote entry.

Footnotes3.png

As text is added, this space enlarges to contain however many lines you type.

Footnotes4.png

The other part you're not immediately aware of, even though you're expecting it, is that you have added the references to your footnote where you initially placed your cursor to create them. Footnotes5.png

Welding

Don't worry, no concern about getting out your smoked glass helmet. Something you can see in the screenshots of the footnote frames above is the small yellow rectangle at the joint of our original text frame and this new footnote frame. This indicates the two frames are welded, and as you might expect you can't pull them apart. If you move one, the other moves right along with it.

This might seem like grouping, but it has some different characteristics. You can resize the main text frame, either by using the mouse or the settings in Properties > XYZ, but if you narrow it, the footnote frame also narrows. If you shorten it, the footnote frame stays right against the bottom of the shortened frame.

On the other hand, you can move the footnote frame, either with the mouse or with X-Pos and Y-Pos spinboxes, but you cannot directly edit the height or width of this welded footnote frame.

Footnotes6.png

Here we have managed to increase the height of the frame by editing the Top Distance in Properties > Text > Columns & Text Distances. As can be seen, this allows for the creating of a little breathing space between the main text and the footnotes. The Left Distance was also edited, but no change happens with width.