Font format for footnote

Shan · Post by **Shan** » Tue Apr 21, 2015 3:18 pm

I can edit the footnote font for a document OK but I can't see how to make this the default for all my footnotes. I have to redo it for each document.

Post by **Robert** » Tue Apr 21, 2015 4:01 pm

You need to create/modify the “Footer” and “Header” styles included in the template used to create new documents (“File | Document Templates… > Normal.rtf”, by default).

Shan · Post by **Shan** » Tue Apr 21, 2015 6:48 pm

I opened the normal template (“File | Document Templates… > Normal)

Edited the header and footer to Georgia font. Saved as Special - Template: Normal.

It doesn't change the font of footnotes. That still uses Arial.

DaleDe · Post by **DaleDe** » Tue Apr 21, 2015 7:42 pm

Don't you have a style called Footnote text? It should have been created the first time you used the footnote command. You can alter that style as you need to. There is also a style called Endnote text. Did you use the footnote command to create your footnotes?

Dale

Post by **Robert** » Tue Apr 21, 2015 9:03 pm

When you first display the “Header & Footer” area in Atlantis, it automatically creates a “Header” and a “Footer” style. Just as automatically, these two styles inherit the font type and size of the “parent” style, i.e. of the “Normal” style, which has “Arial, 11pts” by default.
If you want the “Header & Footer” areas to use a different font face or size, you need to change their default values: “Format | Style > Header/Footer > Modify > Font”. OK out of all open dialogs.

Shan · Post by **Shan** » Tue Apr 21, 2015 9:13 pm

DaleDe wrote:Don't you have a style called Footnote text? It should have been created the first time you used the footnote command. You can alter that style as you need to. There is also a style called Endnote text. Did you use the footnote command to create your footnotes?
Dale

Yes but that only works in THAT document. It doesn't set the default.

Post by **Robert** » Tue Apr 21, 2015 9:19 pm

As already explained, you need to create/modify the “Footer” and “Header” styles included in the template used to create new documents (“File | Document Templates… > Normal.rtf”, by default).

Shan · Post by **Shan** » Tue Apr 21, 2015 9:20 pm

Robert I have never seen the header and footer inherit the Normal style. I always have to set H and F separately, after I set Normal.

But even when I have, and that works for all new documents, it has no effect on FOOTNOTES.

I can now open a new doc (*Normal) and it has Georgia for its body, and for header and footer.
The footnote is still Ariel, until I edit the footnote font after I create the first footnote.
Also that only applies to that document. It does not change the template.
Nor is it this particuular instal;lation. It was same on previous computers in a long line.

Shan · Post by **Shan** » Tue Apr 21, 2015 9:25 pm

Blush. Got it to work. I made a dummy footnote in the Normal template, then edited it in Style. Saved as template (after deleting the footnote) and a new doc now has formatted footnote as I wish.

Thank you for your patience.

Post by **Robert** » Tue Apr 21, 2015 9:37 pm

Sorry, my mistake! I misread “footer” for “footnote”!
So you need to create/modify the “Footnote Text” style included in the template used to create new documents.
Here are the steps:
1. Click “File | Document Templates…”
2. Open “Normal.rtf” (default template).
3. Click “Format | Style > New”.
4. Name this new style as “Footnote Text”.
5. Specify a font type and size for this style.
6. OK out of all open dialogs.
7. Press “Ctrl+S” to save the changes to the “Normal.rtf” template.

Shan · Post by **Shan** » Wed Apr 22, 2015 3:27 am

Robert thank you lots. How about copying that into your on;line Help?