Footnote Issues with Section Breaks
Posted: 2015-09-04 01:37:54
Hello,
I've been noticing what I think is an anomaly with the way Nisus handles footnotes, and I was wondering if I was correct and if there's a way to fix it, or if I was missing something entirely.
Here's the issue. Sometimes, at the end of a section, right before a section break which will start a new section on an odd page, Nisus will let footnotes spill over from the last page of the previous section to the first page of the new section.
Nisus seems to do this when the last page of the section is almost full of text and when a footnote comes right at the end of the page/section.
But surely this is not the intended behaviour. Surely Nisus should keep all footnotes from Section N within Section N, and not mix them up with the footnotes of Section N+1. When sections are actually chapters, the result is that the last footnote of, for example, Chapter 3, can spill over onto the first page of Chapter 4. This is surely wrong, especially when the footnote numbering is set to start again from 1 at the beginning of a new section.
I'm seeing this issue in a long document with lots of notes, but I've managed to reproduce it in the attached test file (rtf & pdf), which is short with few notes. (See note 2 at the bottom of p. 2, which spills over onto the first page of the new section, on p. 3).
Is there a setting I'm missing somewhere to fix this, or is this a bug? Any indications any of the helpful people on this forum might be able to provide would be appreciated.
Stef.
I've been noticing what I think is an anomaly with the way Nisus handles footnotes, and I was wondering if I was correct and if there's a way to fix it, or if I was missing something entirely.
Here's the issue. Sometimes, at the end of a section, right before a section break which will start a new section on an odd page, Nisus will let footnotes spill over from the last page of the previous section to the first page of the new section.
Nisus seems to do this when the last page of the section is almost full of text and when a footnote comes right at the end of the page/section.
But surely this is not the intended behaviour. Surely Nisus should keep all footnotes from Section N within Section N, and not mix them up with the footnotes of Section N+1. When sections are actually chapters, the result is that the last footnote of, for example, Chapter 3, can spill over onto the first page of Chapter 4. This is surely wrong, especially when the footnote numbering is set to start again from 1 at the beginning of a new section.
I'm seeing this issue in a long document with lots of notes, but I've managed to reproduce it in the attached test file (rtf & pdf), which is short with few notes. (See note 2 at the bottom of p. 2, which spills over onto the first page of the new section, on p. 3).
Is there a setting I'm missing somewhere to fix this, or is this a bug? Any indications any of the helpful people on this forum might be able to provide would be appreciated.
Stef.