On 24 Mar 2010, at 10:50, Nobumi Iyanaga wrote: [...] > Another bug is that with some footnotes, the main text area is made sometimes too large, with a large blank space at the bottom of the page, above the footnotes. > > This is harder than the other cases to fix. This problem of large blank space is very common. Unchecking 'Prevent widow/orphan' may improve the layout. Also, in places where paragraph styles change, inserting an extra Return, instead of using paragraph spacing, in the body may reduce the unwanted blank space. Hamid