Luke's LibreOffice Hacks

Microsoft Word has a built-in Style Separator function that allows the user to mix two different styles in the same paragraph; LibreOffice, as of the date of this post, does not have the same capability. Below is a comment I appended to the bug number referenced in the subject line of this post. I'm sure I will be kicked out of the forum…again.  If you don't care to read a snarky vs. snarky post, here is the summary: First, LibreOffice Writer does not have a Style Separator function and the Document Foundation does not (at this time) intend to develop one. Second, the alternatives suggested by the devs and by users in the forum are clever but worthless to the serious user. "This is an ongoing issue that has been reported in at least two separate bug reports and the developers have responded, once with "there are ways to accomplish this without developing an actual style separator" (my description) and, in this bug report, "Looks like this is a bit of an obsc...

Disclaimer : Don't worry: Removing your current version won't mess with your LO files or with your LO settings (dictionary, autocorrect, etc.). On the other hand, people can do some pretty weird stuff that nobody told them to do, thus we deny liability and culpability for anything that goes wrong in your attempt to follow these instructions, no matter if you follow them exactly or if you get creative and leave the beaten path. So, here goes. I have my reasons for not wanting to use the Snap version of LibreOffice. So here is how I keep my LO up-to-date without having to resort to the Snap version. (This is a much quicker process than it appears, usually fewer than ten minutes). Why do it this way? First, I don't want the Snap version of LibreOffice. While I do have both Snap and Flatpak versions of various programs installed on my computer, and without going into a lengthy discussion of why I don't want to use the Snap version of LO, suffice it to say that I don't t...

In LibreOffice Writer, there is an option for defining how much space a footnote can occupy on a page…but it is an option in theory only. In actuality, the function is quirky and The Document Foundation has, to my knowledge, never come up with a reason for the problem, not to mention a fix for it. The scenario (see images above) Let's say that you have a fairly long document and you want your footnotes to be numbered consecutively for the entire document, and you want your footnotes to appear at the end of each page. So far, so good. You have discovered how to make that happen by going to Tools, Footnotes and Endnotes, and doing the set-up there. But how do you make sure that your footnotes do not break across pages? Do this: Click on Format, Page Style, Footnote. In "Footnote Area" click on "Not Larger Than Page Area," then click on Okay. The problem Following the instruction above works under special circumstances only, which are defined on the LibreOffice Hel...