I need to change Arabic numbers, used to indicate footnotes and endnotes, to Devanagari numbers. I can make this change using Tools/footnotesandendnotes and the menus. I change both the list of numbers, from 1,2,3. . . to १,२,३. . and I change the first number from 1 to १. When I save changes and leave the document, however, the footnote/endnote numbers revert to Arabic. How do I keep them in Devanagari?
Works for me (Complext text layout enabled):
Version: 7.6.2.1 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 60(Build:1)
CPU threads: 1; OS: Linux 5.14; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: es-MX (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
But don’t work if saved as .docx.
Thank you. I forgot to mention that the publisher I’m working with demands I send them files in .doc or .docx. And that is the problem. I can save this document just fine as .odt. The note numbers remain in Devanagari, but when I save as a Word document, then they get reverted to Arabic. Clearly, though, Libre Office is doing its job (:-).
Have you tested saving as .doc?
There is one of two bugs here that must be tested. Setting footnote numbers as Devanagari…
- …when saving as .docx, Writer saves them as Arabic, or
- …when opening a .docx, Writer convert them to Arabic.
I can’t test with Word in this PC.
There is a bug report related to this issue: 158354 – FILESAVE DOCX Footnotes lose styling