Footnote Separator-- any way to remove it?

When you open up the Inspector, go to the document tab and click the document button. There is a headline "Footnotes & Endnotes" with the preference "Space Between Notes". Just set it to 0 px and the space is gone.

I searched in the programs internals.

(1) fine feature, the FrameWorks are no longer specific to each program. There is a single set stored in:
<startupVolume>:Library:Application Support:iWork '09:Frameworks:

For me it's more important than for current users because I have two iWork '09 packages installed, one to run in French, one to run in English.
With iWork '08, I had six sets of FrameWorks, you had three sets.
With iWork '09 we have only one set.

(2) It seems that the 'annoying' separator is defined in a .nib file and these ones aren't editables.

Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE mercredi 7 janvier 2009 14:34:20)

This is one of those problems in Pages, like the problems with .Mac / MobileMe, that I get the feeling they don't care about and will at this point never, ever fix unless they are somehow publicly embarrassed. That's unlikely to happen in this context, and they clearly don't do demanding academic word processing over at Apple often enough to notice these things themselves.

Besides the absence of editability in footnote separators, I continue to be unhappy with the crude handling of long footnotes, which cannot cross pages and can, when occurring in reasonable numbers, completely mess up the look of a whole document. Every other word processor I know, from ClarisWorks to WriteNow to every known version of Word, counts this sort of footnote handling among its basic, unremarkable skills.

The response is now slightly different:

_Go to "Provide Numbers Feedback" in the "Numbers" menu_, describe what you wish.
Then, cross your fingers, and wait _at least_ for iWork'10 😉

Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE mercredi 7 janvier 2009 21:48:47)

The "crude handling of long footnotes" is the one complaint/feature that has stopped me from migrating completely to Pages for my academic work. In my area (Humanities) long footnotes/endnotes are common (connecting to spread sheets is not) -- and the final print-out of a Pages document with footnotes looks awful. I have started in Pages and exported to Word but I'd like to just use Apple software, which I generally prefer. Mellel isn't bad, but its development has stalled. And there are other options, but come on Apple -- get with it on Pages.... you've got a willing customer who writes thousands of words a month! As Peter says, this is so basic I wonder how you haven't done it long ago. Maybe in the next update.... ? (ha, as if) And, by the way, those of you looking for an alternative to Endnote might want to check out Bookends....

Well, I read that: (2) It seems that the 'annoying' separator is defined in a .nib file and these ones aren't editables.
have you Developer folder installed on your HD? I think the app. Interface Builder can edit .nib files. Chjeck it out!

I already wrote that they aren't editable with Interface Builder.
There is a kind of protection disabling the feature.
Of course if someone knows a way to get rid of it, I am interested.

Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE jeudi 8 janvier 2009 13:32:36)

My reflection over the long footnootes is exactly the same of that of RTMcC.
I obstinately searched for a way to figure it out, and all I found is a sort of acrobacy. Acrobacy, yes, but it works, so I report in here. Maybe someone could appreciate it.
The problem that Pages cant' solve is the handling of long footnotes through two pages. Every note has to stay in the same page in which it's created, so the space in the main text is generated in order to put the row with the note in the next page, when in the original page there's enogh space to host it.
Well, I tried this. I divided in two parts the long footnote, as well as the original page can host the fist part. After this, I created a personal note in the first row of the other page and put in the second part of the note, erasing the symbol in the note and changing in white the symbol's color in the main text. So the two parts will look as the original long note, spanning from one page to the other.
Naturrally, it could be necessary make same editing in sequence, because the page that hosts the second part of the note could become too full for another long note that's in its main text. So the tip could be repeated till every page is acceptable.
Complicated, but if the problem occurs not so many times in the text it could work. In may dissertation this problem has occurred about five times. We can make it.