And, honestly, I look at some of the requests here, and I think, "Wha-a-t?" Sometimes I do not even know what people are talking about, and at other times I think, "Gee, you are asking a lot, too much, really."
Other requests through the years have been reasonable. One of these was part of the infamous Battle for Tables in Atlantis. This battle raged for many years, and we now have a really nice, easy-to-use tables feature in Atlantis. Again, our sincere thanks to the Atlantis staff!
Another reasonable request was made in 2008 (ten years ago!), and as far as I know, this fairly simple issue has never been resolved.
I am talking about the "note separator line" that appears just above a footnotes or endnotes section. It is not possible to change the short horizontal line that appears one line above the notes section. It is not possible to remove it entirely.
I encountered this issue yesterday when I was making a list (actually in a table, but that is irrelevant), a few of whose items needed an explanatory note. It was hard to tag items manually, because if I then decided to add or delete an item, it messed up the sequential numbering of the items.
It occurred to me that I might be able to provide the notes as endnotes. I discovered, to my delight, that Atlantis will let you do notes for individual sections of a document. I made my list (which was in a table) a separate section. At that point, I thought that this would work out great. And, in fact, the notes were fine except for one thing. Atlantis sticks a short horizontal line just above the notes section, just like you made forty years ago when you wrote a term paper with a typewriter and hit the underline key about twenty times.
Although this line is fine if you are writing a term paper according to the old typewriter model, it is not necessarily good for preparation of a book for publication. The footnotes section is less of an issue than the endnotes section. For endnotes you often want a final page titled ENDNOTES, and you really do not need a separator line.
So, anyway, I want to submit an appeal for you to address this old but very valid issue.
Thanks.
