How do I get the typography toolbar footnotes markers (asterisk, etc.) to work?

[TreborElknuk]

I’ve installed the extension Typography toolbar 1.0 (0.5 oxt) in order to be able to use footnote markers: asterisk, dagger, etc. but when I select that (Footnote numbering symbols from the toolbar) it still uses numeric footnote markers and changes the font type from Times New Roman. How do I get this to work? Why isn’t the asterisk, dagger, etc. sequence for footnote markers a basic option for LO? I’m running LibreOffice Writer 5.2.5.1.

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[anon87010807]

Running LibO 5.3.0 on Win 10, just downloaded and installed Typography 1.1 and can’t reproduce your problem. Of course, you have to set Linux Libertine G or another Graphite font as the font for your body text.

It’s true that you can’t set the asterisk, dagger style for footnotes in LibO, and that’s odd, although I suspect that the asterisk and dagger style is somewhat old-fashioned.

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[TreborElknuk]

Thank you for responding. I admit that I’m the pretty ignorant about Typology 1.1 as there wasn’t any documentation accompanying it that I came across that was for a newbie.

I don’t know if the asterisk, dagger style is old fashion; I’ve seen it used in several fairly recently published books (and my not too ancient “The Chicago Manual of Style” still discusses it)–probably something the publisher weighs in on. That said, I have both footnotes and end notes and need to differentiate between.

[TreborElknuk]

That is–differentiate within the text body and none of the other footnote marker options were desirable. But that is another issue.

[RGB-es]

As floris said, you need Linux Libertine G or Linux Biolinum G font. Then edit the following character styles: Footnote anchor and Footnote characters and set the font as

Linux Libertine G:foot=1

or

Linux Biolinum G:foot=1

Just remember to number the footnotes “per page” on Tools → Footnotes and endnotes → Footnotes tab.

[TreborElknuk]

Thank you for responding. I’ll try that. Is that documented anywhere?

[JairLópez]

Yes, It’s documented Here and this is the ODF version.

[dfronczek]

This solution is by no means automatic, but might work for you nevertheless. It’s quick and easy and also documented here: [https://bookandsword.com/2019/07/11/how-to-mark-a-footnote-with-an-asterisk-in-libreoffice/]

Don’t use “Insert → Footnote and Endnote → Footnote”.
Instead, use “Insert → Footnote and Endnote → Footnote or Endnote…”
Then, in the pop-up window choose any char for the footnote.

You can use the same character multiple times on mutliple pages (or even the same page, but that might cause some confusion :-/ ).