Quoting rgheck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
1) creating a footnote from existing text causing unusable formatting.
I'm not following your description of this problem. Is the problem that
when you copy and paste, LyX is copying the paragraph formatting? -- If
so, you can edit the formatting by selecting Edit > Paragraph Settings
....
I've tried to fix it with Edit > Paragraph by selecting just the
footnote text as well as the whole paragraph. Doesn't solve it --
presumably because it doesn't have an option to undo the formatting
-- I can only choose, left, right, justified or centered.
You don't have "Use Paragraph's Default Alignment"? The point of this
option is to undo customization. That's why I added it. ;-)
Ah! I didn't try it before because it says "[justified]" But this
indeed fixes the formatting of the pasted footnote content. Thanks!
The problem is that when I create a new footnote and paste text
into it from elsewhere, (OR if I select text and execute footnote
-- either way) it adds a whole blank line between the footnote
number and the footnote text in the dvi or ps view of the footnote
footer.
Seems that in earlier versions of LyX this was never a problem. Now
the only way I can do it is to completely re-type the footnote
contents.
I'm guessing that the problem here is that you have paragraph alignment
set in the text you are cutting, and then that is added to the footnote
when you paste. Paste works that way. Maybe it shouldn't.
Probably would be good if it didn't since the intended use would be
the characters not their paragraph attributes which would be defined
by the context.
I also found that I had to delete and retype section and chapter
titles in these docs that were converted from latex. Probably the
default paragraph alignment would fix this too though now I'm unable
to re-create the problem because I'll need a new import to do so.
Newly typed text is not a problem with any of these formatting issues
-- only imported latex as far as I've found.
jamie faunt
