Bug 73977

Summary:	Other: Increase available footnote area to support traditional Arabic, Urdu, and Persian typesetting
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	AtaRafi <ata.rafi88>
Component:	Writer	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	high
Version:	4.1.0.4 release
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:	BSA
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description AtaRafi 2014-01-23 14:16:33 UTC

Problem description: 
Traditional Arabic books often have larger footnotes. Usually I have to work with Arabic Books. These books have a lot of footnote text. Sometimes a SINGLE footnote continues to two or more pages.

This is very common in Arabic, Urdu and Persian traditional books. I mean we don't have any choice, we can't work with small footnotes area.

When i have large footnotes, they only occupy 78% of my page, the rest of page stays neat, that's not reasonable nor it looks good.

I want to have maximum footnote area, or at least 90% of the page.

And I want Writer to have a DOTTED line in a page that does not have main content, but only footnote text. What i mean is, if a page has a lot of footnote text (continued from previous page), commonly this page has a dotted line at the top, then the "separator" and then the footnote text.

Current behavior:
Maximum footnote area is not available in writer.

Expected behavior:
Writer should have the ability to give maximum footnote area, or say 90% area of the page.
Operating System: Windows 7
Version: 4.1.0.4 release

Comment 1 AtaRafi 2014-01-23 14:27:33 UTC

Behavior: Enhancement

Comment 2 Owen Genat 2014-01-24 05:23:10 UTC

Thanks for reporting the bug, however please do not confirm your own bugs. The point of confirmation is to allow a secondary party to verify the issue. I can confirm that the default "Not larger than page area" setting specified under Format > Page > Footnote tab appears to be set at ~78-79% range of the paragraph text area. The "Maximum footnote height" setting is similarly limited. The related AskLO thread is:

http://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/28373/maximum-footnote-area/

Arch./Platform set to All/All as I see the same thing under GNU/Linux x86_64. Importance left at high as this affects traditional "Arabic, Urdu and Persian" typesetting. Would be good if a l10n expert could confirm this. Severity set to enhancement. Summary edited for clarity.

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