Nearly six months down the road, and this issue is still listed as "Status: New", receiving zero attention.
Yet, this is perhaps the most important drawback of LibreOffice in practice in a professional production environment, where documents are edited and updated on a routine basis and where document integrity is of paramount importance. Moreover, as improved document comparison featured in the latest versions of OOo before migration to LibreOffice, why not at least simply reinstating that? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to libreoffice in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/782406 Title: LibreOffice Writer Document Compare (regression) Status in “libreoffice” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Binary package hint: libreoffice OpenOffice 3.2 Writer contained one major improvement over earlier versions, which had been overdue for years: It offered for the first time the ability to fine-tune the options when comparing two documents (Edit > Compare Documents...). This ability to select Document Compare options (via Tools > Options...) has now been dropped again in LibreOffice 3.3.2, installed with the Ubuntu upgrade to 11.04. Comparing two files has reverted to the old OOo behaviour of flagging entire long sequences of paragraphs as different, when in fact they are actually identical except maybe for just one or two minor typographical differences. The ability to compare documents efficiently is absolutely essential when editing long and complex documents in a production environment. Until OOo 3.2, the only real choice was to revert to Microsoft Office just for the purpose of document comparison and to let MS Word precisely detect the differences. OOo 3.2 was the first real improvement here, but in LibreOffice we are now back to square one. Please bring back this essential key feature -- the code must still be there --, and hopefully, refine it further so at to detect any changes more precisely. Note: Document Comparison also still does not work at all in footnotes. Two documents with differences only in the text of footnotes are erroneously flagged as identical. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/782406/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
