[scribus] Footnotes in 1.5.0svn

[Gregory Pittman]

On 06/17/2013 01:29 AM, "Christoph Schäfer" wrote:
>> Gesendet: Sonntag, 16. Juni 2013 um 18:12 Uhr
>> Von: "Gregory Pittman" <gpittman at iglou.com>
>> An: "Scribus User Mailing List" <scribus at lists.scribus.net>
>> Betreff: [scribus] Footnotes in 1.5.0svn
>>
>> I've just begun a wiki page on Footnotes, since they've gotten to the 
>> point of being usable. Of course they are only found in 1.5.0 at this 
>> point, and probably won't be backported to 1.4.x.
>>
>> http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Footnotes
>>
>> The GUI for footnotes is a bit spread out among several menu items, so I 
>> wanted to see if I could begin to understand them. I don't maintain that 
>> everything you see on the page is accurate or even as usage was 
>> designed, but just based to trying to figure this out on my own.
>>
>> Eventually something like this should make its way to the online manual 
>> once features have stabilized and the information is without errors.
>>
> 
> To say it is "a bit spread out among several menu items" is a nice way of saying that it currently is more a reflection of the inner workings of Scribus ;) This is one of the issues that need to be sorted out on the way to 1.6.0, i.e., moost of it needs to become part of the Style Editor. Personally, I wouldn't waste too much time on documenting this feature yet. It won't stay that way, if sanity prevails.
> 

One of the functions of some preliminary documentation is to display a
process that needs some help with usability. Footnotes are at least
usable at this point, so we might as well have some directions for those
who want to experiment.

As I got into this, something which also occurred to me was the feature
of footnotes frames having the ability to expand to fit content. If it
can be done for them, why can't it be done for regular text frames?

Greg