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I’m trying to move my workflow over to LibreOffice, but it needs to match the formatting of the previous volumes in the series. This was formatted on Microsoft Word, where the effect is fairly easy to achieve. To see the formatting, click on the “Print Book” tab at the top, then “First Pages” in the left-hand menu. If you want to see an example of the formatting I’m trying to achieve, you can preview one of the previous books in this series on Amazon here: I’m using LibreOffice 5.1.4.2 on Mac OS X, if it makes a difference. I haven’t been able to find any way to get to where I want to be (the first example above). If I go back and re-set the hanging indent…it also re-sets the tab stop, so that I’m back in the situation above. I can delete this tab stop, but if I do, it immediately also deletes any hanging indent I’ve set, so that the result looks like this: # Term: Definition first line
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If I set different values for “Before Text” and “First Line” indents, the first line affects only the footnote number, and the tab stop is reset so that the first text line is even with the hanging indent.
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I’ve gotten rid of the footnote indicator by setting the font to white (if there’s a better way of doing this, I’d love to know that as well).īy default, LibreOffice seems to put a tab between the footnote number and the footnote text, in such a way that there is a straight left text margin with the number isolated at the left: #. It needs to have a hanging indent: Term: Definition first line I am trying to create a footnote style that looks something like a dictionary entry, for indicating glosses in a medieval text. However, the same procedure does not allow you to create a hanging indent in footnotes.
#HOW TO DO A HANGING INDENT ON LIBREOFFICE HOW TO#
I understand how to create a hanging indent in ordinary text, using the “Before Text” and “First Line” fields, in the “Indents & Spacing” tab of the Paragraph formatting dialog box.