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From: BL.JPL@forsythe.stanford.edu (Jonathan Lavigne)
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Subject: Re: Ventura Footnoting Weirdness
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Date: 19 Sep 89 05:43:57 GMT
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In article <1883@hydra.gatech.EDU>,
russ@prism.gatech.EDU (Russell Shackelford) writes:
>I use Ventura 2.0, love it, have been able to solve every problem I've
>encountered with min difficulty, EXCEPT.....
>
>when using it to handle footnotes, the space auto-allocated to the
>footnotes at page bottom is occasionally inappropriately large with no
>apparent way to correct.  The only hint given in the doc pertains to
>the possibility that one has large "above" and "below" spacing set for
>Body Text (not my case at all).
>
>what's the deal?  why does Ventura mess up footnote space allocation?
>how to correct it? (I don;t mind cleaning up after V's mistakes IF I
>know HOW to do so!  I don't!)

Are the footnotes long? I'm working on a book that has many, many
footnotes, some of them longer than the paragraphs they reference.
After about ten minutes of trying to get the auto footnote
feature to work, I gave up and made separate frames for the notes.
That solution may be a bit more work, but it allows a lot of
flexibility in the placement of the notes--something that's really
needed for this particular book, which sometimes has as many notes
in a paragraph as sentences. I don't think any software could figure
out how to place some of these notes automatically on the page. I
need to do things like tighten or loosen the tracking on single
paragraphs to get some of them in manually.

Jonathan Lavigne                 BL.JPL@RLG.STANFORD.EDU
Research Libraries Group
Stanford University