Re: Footnote Spacing

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Manuel Castelao

John Cumming wrote:
>
> I'm having a problem I don't recall seeing addressed on this list. I am
> using XyWin 4.13 on a Toshiba Satellite 2595 CDS running Windows 98
> (although I have had the same problem with other equipment running under
> Windows 95 and 3.x).
>
> When I am preparing lengthy documents with same page footnotes
> (required), the main text often breaks a line or two later than it
> should, moving the last line or two of the footnote onto the next page
> (or sometimes even to the second page following). The footnote should
> only be split up if it occurs on the last line of the main text.
> However, this can and does happen even when a single footnote is near
> the top of the page and includes only a couple of lines of text.
>
> My footnote formatting commands include a standard separator as well as
> a separator for when the text must carry over to the next page. I use
> different bottom page margin limits depending on the type of the
> document, but this doesn't appear to affect this problem.
>
> The only way I have been able to correct the problem is to go in and
> insert page breaks throughout the document so that the entire text of
> the footnote will appear on the same page as the main text to which it
> is referenced (unless of course, the footnote is to the last line of
> main text and must be continued to the next page).
>
> Is there a cure for this problem other than my manual corrections?