Editor for footnotes is too small

[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.