[icon-users] Overflowing footnotes

From: John Harrison <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Icon users <icon-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 20:24:58 +0100

I have a very odd effect.  A footnote overflows onto the page after it is
referenced.  I suspect there isn't enough room, so I squeeze a preceding
paragraph down to make more space.  At that point, the heading of a table
that starts on the following page pops into the newly created space, but
the footnote remains on the following page.

So I try a different tack.  I insert another footnote, anchored immediately
before the problem one, and containing the same text.  It obediently comes
onto the correct page.  

I assume there must have been something funny with the original footnote,
so I delete it.  Then the new one disappears and goes onto the next page.

The same problem affects the following page.  The last footnote, which
appears less than half way down the page, appears on the page after.

I subsequently started getting document corruption warnings when trying
to save, and internal error 15 warnings when trying to scroll over a
table above it.

My standard solution in such cases is to cut out the affected chapter
and rebuild it using non affected sections and copied plain text. I
did this, and the affected table (actually two 5x18 tables nested in a
2x1 table) I rebuilt from scratch.

When I tried to add a footnote, I got the curruption problem again.

So I experimented with another table (with no text).  Up to about 5 rows
I could add a footnote in it OK, but with the full number of rows I get
corruption!

Has anyone met such a problem, and can suggest what is happening, and
how to fix the problem?

EW 8.73, RO5.11

Regards

-- 
John Harrison -  http://www.jaharrison.me.uk
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