Hello, all. I’ve experienced “footnote oddities” in Scrivener for Windows before, but this is the first time my footnote is just plain missing.
It’s not every footnote; just one in particular.
I have access to Scrivener for Mac, and that version compiles the document just fine.
The word to which the footnote is attached is not even numbered, and the footnote appears nowhere in the document. Curiously, there is a section separator (***) after that paragraph which should not be there. (Bear in mind, this is a bog-standard footnote on the last word of a paragraph before the next para.)
Thank you for the tip. This technique did not work for this footnote.
Nor did adding the footnote as an ‘inline footnote’… until I added a nonsense footnote in some preceding text. This seemed to unwedge the broken footnote somehow.
It really does look like a bona fide bug to my eyes…
Dummy text after the problem note - no improvement.
Extra blank line - no improvement.
After setting (then unsetting since it didn’t fix things) the Footnote Marker preference per Vincent’s suggestion, I now am getting the characters <$FM> in the place where the problematic footnote is set. Might be a clue?
Your footnote might have conflictual embedded formatting.
Cut its text.
Paste it in the editor in a “no style” paragraph, using edit\paste and match style. (Ctrl-Shft-V)
Cut that new version.
Make that your footnote text.
??
Interesting idea and I was optimistic, as the problem note had an ellipsis character! But no luck. Then I deleted the footnote in its entirety (X’d it out) and inserted a new footnote in its place with the words “This is a test”. Sadly, it fails in the same way.
You said it worked when you added a dummy footnote earlier in the text.
Was then that dummy footnote visible too, in the compiled output?
If “no”, the issue is perhaps with the preceding footnote…
Please create a test project with just the document containing the problem footnote. See if it still misbehaves. If it does, open a support ticket and email us a copy of the test project.
You can email a project by using the File → Backup → Backup To command, and checking the box to create a ZIP backup.
When I insert a throwaway footnote in a preceding sentence, all the footnotes (including the throwaway) are visible. If I delete the throwaway, the problem footnote no longer appears in the compilation.
A stripped down test project with the single document still demonstrates the issue, yes.
I need to ponder my comfort sharing the document, as it’s part of a personal journal. (I do fully get how having a reproducible item in hand is the necessary piece for the Scrivener dev team.)
I seem to have accidentally discovered the root cause (or at least something very close to it).
Altering the PDF options causes the problematic footnote to appear or disappear in a reproducible fashion. The settings that I’ve highlighted below work; changing PDF hinting to any other value or changing PDF resolution to ‘High’ causes the problematic footnote to disappear.
