Editor for footnotes is too small

[winston_wolf]

I have a lot of footnotes for my historical book, some are long. Editing them in the inspector panel is quite difficult because font size is small and basically the inspector panel is narrow/small (so if I have a lot of footnotes, I’ll have to scroll down a lot on the panel). Ideally I would hope for a pop-up window whenever I add/edit a footnote but I think it’s out of the question.

What’s the best practice for adding/editing footnotes? Any obvious solution that I miss to enlarge the editor, font size? Many thanks.

[AmberV]

This is from a recent thread:

Change footnote in-editor appearance?

You might prefer an option found in the Editing: Options tab: Open comments in inspector if possible set to off. In this condition, with the inspector closed (as it sounds like you have it), footnotes will come up in a pop-up when you click on them—and that includes when you create them as well. You can tap Esc or click anywhere else to get rid of the box, and you don’t have to sit there and wait for however many seconds it takes for a tooltip to appear to begin with. Plus, you can edit if you …

You could also go into the Editing: Formatting options tab, and change the Inspector comments font (which is also used for footnotes), and then right-click on existing selected footnotes in the inspector to reset their formatting to default.

While there, also note that the text scale can be zoomed in the right-click menu, and the inspector itself can be made quite wide.

[winston_wolf]

Many thanks for this

[GoalieDad]

With Footnotes on Windows, no right click zoom function, and if use ctrl + mouse wheel to increase text , the footnote inspector window does not increase in size (depth) though obviously can widen. Also if inspector closed can again increase text size, but the box cannot be enlarged to accomadate room for a larger text. if the box could be expandable that would be great. (same for comments as well)