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Growly notes hanging indent8/5/2023 You're ignoring distributions of Emacs which are designed to solve this problem by bundling and pre-configuring everything. I'm surprised more people don't do the same. I find myself more eager to write things down. If Gollum stops being maintained, I can use whatever the next best markdown renderer is. If there's a feature I wish it had, I can write a quick bash script to implement it. Edited with vim and a few bash scripts, rendered with a custom deployment of Gollum. Plain timestamped markdown files linked together. It's silly to use software that isn't making that same investment.Īfter trying Evernote, Workflowy, Notion, wikis, org-mode, and essentially everything else I could find, I gave up and tried building my own system for notes. When you write things down, you're investing in your future. At best it's open source and the maintainers will lose interest in a few years. While editing, show/hide will effect the page layout.I've given up on using any sort of branded app for notetaking.You cannot use the link of the footnote, which goes back to the text, in case the line is hidden.You can only enter text to a new footnote, if the line with the style “Footnote” is not hidden.It might be possible to write a macro for hide/show. Always uncheck “Hidden” before inserting a new footnote, write the footnote and then check “Hidden”. Go to paragraph style “Footnote”, check “Hidden”. Notice, that this new line will be indented as it is specified in the “Footnote” paragraph style. Fill the line so that it wraps to a new line. The line will start vertical aligned with the footnote character. Then do not enter characters into the footnote line, but hit Enter there to start a new line. To use it, first go to style “Footnote” and uncheck “Hidden”. “Gloss”, in tab “Font Effects” check “Hidden”. In tab “Organizer” set field “Next Style” to your custom style, e.g. Make sure the field “Inherit from” has “Footnote”. Some preparations: Open “Styles and Formatting” dialog and right-click paragraph style “Footnote”, item “New”. Perhaps you can fake it, here my suggestion: I’m trying to move my workflow over to LibreOffice, but it needs to match the formatting of the previous volumes in the series. This was formatted on Microsoft Word, where the effect is fairly easy to achieve. To see the formatting, click on the “Print Book” tab at the top, then “First Pages” in the left-hand menu. If you want to see an example of the formatting I’m trying to achieve, you can preview one of the previous books in this series on Amazon here: I’m using LibreOffice 5.1.4.2 on Mac OS X, if it makes a difference. I haven’t been able to find any way to get to where I want to be (the first example above). If I go back and re-set the hanging indent…it also re-sets the tab stop, so that I’m back in the situation above. I can delete this tab stop, but if I do, it immediately also deletes any hanging indent I’ve set, so that the result looks like this: # Term: Definition first line If I set different values for “Before Text” and “First Line” indents, the first line affects only the footnote number, and the tab stop is reset so that the first text line is even with the hanging indent. I’ve gotten rid of the footnote indicator by setting the font to white (if there’s a better way of doing this, I’d love to know that as well).īy default, LibreOffice seems to put a tab between the footnote number and the footnote text, in such a way that there is a straight left text margin with the number isolated at the left: #. It needs to have a hanging indent: Term: Definition first line I am trying to create a footnote style that looks something like a dictionary entry, for indicating glosses in a medieval text. However, the same procedure does not allow you to create a hanging indent in footnotes. I understand how to create a hanging indent in ordinary text, using the “Before Text” and “First Line” fields, in the “Indents & Spacing” tab of the Paragraph formatting dialog box.
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