Footnote numbering not restarting on new pages

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Hi,

I’m writing a novel that makes use of footnotes and I would like to have the footnote counter reset on each page. I’ve created a compile format that I like, I’ve ticked the “Footnote numbering resets after page breaks” check box in the “Footnotes & Comments” tab, but it just doesn’t seem to take that into account.

When I compile my document, I get a continuous run of footnote numberings. I tried including some screenshots to illustrate my problem, but my account is not trustworthy enough yet I guess.

I’m not sure if this is a bug or I’m just missing something, but googling has yielded no further useful information on the topic.

Help would be appreciated.

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Hi.
Page breaks at compile are between sections. (If set so.)
Or, in other words: between documents/files.

New pages, in the normal flow of things, are not coming from them.
So the condition isn’t met in your case.

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What format are you compiling to?

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Aha! I’ve spotted the culprit!

I guess I should have also mentioned that I was trying to compile to PDF. And that particular option doesn’t show up when trying to compile to PDF…

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But magically appears when compiling to RTF

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(I have image powers now!)

Is there no way of getting it to compile that way directly to PDF? Do I need to compile to RTF and then export that as PDF?

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From my limited experience I’d think so.
Compile to RTF, use LibreOffice to convert it as-is to PDF. – An extra 5 minutes well spent.
(It should technically work fine. But as I said, I never tried this specifically.)

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Yeah, it’s not a big deal. Just find it a bit odd that that would be difficult to achieve when compiling directly to pdf. Well, thanks for the help everyone!