dianaiad wrote:
Jay Freedman wrote:
dianaiad wrote:
I am doing extensive quoting of Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales". The
poem needs to have line numbers, but I do NOT want the explanatory
text and the title to be included in the line count. I've seen how
to apply line numbers to the entire text, but how do I apply it to
only PART of the text, just the quoted poetry?

Whether line numbers display is a section-level property. Insert a
continuous section break between the explanatory text and the
poetry, and enable line numbers only in the poetry section. Note
that you can't automatically continue the line numbering sequence
from one poetry section to the next if there is a non-numbered
section between them; each section will start at 1 or whatever you
set in the Line Numbers dialog.

Thank you, Jay; in this case, your solution works perfectly; the main
quote was one very long section of text.

I manually inserted the line numbers in the smaller, interspersed
quotes.

Oh, and how do I fix the footnotes so that there is no superscript
in the main document, and the footnotes (which will refer back to
the line numbers) still appear at the bottom of the page?

I don't think it's possible to make footnote numbers take their
values from line numbers. You can choose the nonbreaking space
(Alt+0160) as the custom footnote symbol so that no number appears
either in the text *or* in the footnote, and manually refer to the
line number. Because the line numbers of the quoted poetry won't
change, that's probably acceptable here, but there's no way to
automate it.

Oh dear.

How do I do that?

Diana

First, I'll say that Daiya's suggestion of setting the Hidden attribute on
the Footnote Reference style is probably the easier solution for creating
footnotes without visible numbers or symbols. The reason is that the style
change is something you can do once for the entire document, or -- if you
save that change in the template -- once for all documents based on the same
template.

My suggestion of using an invisible character requires you to type the
character again for each footnote. If you're still interested, though, read
on...

In the Footnote dialog (which you can reach either through the Insert menu
or with the shortcut Ctrl+Alt+F), put the cursor in the Custom box and press
the combination Ctrl+Alt+spacebar. Click OK. The cursor will go to the
footnote area but there won't be any number or symbol there. (If you turn on
nonprinting characters by clicking the ¶ button, you'll see a small circle
that represents the nonbreaking space.) Type the number of the line you're
referring to, and the rest of the footnote.

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Jay Freedman
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