https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=126216
[email protected] changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #3 from [email protected] --- I was able to replicate treshall’s failure. I believe this is not a failure; however, but a design feature that Word offers. What I noticed in reviewing and replicating the bug was that in Word the footnote is justified/aligned after the chose footnote type (automatic or character). Regardless of the type chosen, either individually or both in the same footnote, the indent and alignment was consistent in Word. To recreate “treshall”s bug, I did the following: I opened Writer 4.1.1 on my Windows 7 machine. I also opened google and chose some text from any page (I chose airplanes, and Wikipedia). I copied the text from the page into my bank Writer document, to have some context. I then went to the tool bar, and chose Insert, then Footnote/endnote. When the pop-up displayed it asked if wanted the Footnote to be Automatic or Character. For my first attempt, I chose Automatic. The footnote was then applied, and a “1” was shown. I typed information for my first line. I hit return, and added a 2nd line to my footnote, and then once again and added a 3rd line. I preceded line 2 and 3 with special characters. I then saved my document in .odt I then opened my document again (mine was saved on my desktop). I then chose to save the same document (with no modifications) as a .rtf also to my desktop. I am using Word 2010. I then opened both the .odt and the .rft to compare. I noted that the .odt was exactly as I had typed the footnote. Whereas the .rft had left justified the 3 lines of footer to be in alignment, and the “1” was still on the first line, but several spaces separated it from the first line of text. I then chose to save the .odt in other file types (.swx, .txt,.doc, .ott) I opened each in turn, and found the Word documents (.swx and .doc) had the same alignment as .rtf The .ott document looked the same as the .odt. The .txt document did not save the footnote. Next, I added a 2nd page of text to the .odt document. I also added a footnote on the 2nd page of the document, with both the Automatic and Character footnote types. Again, I saved this document as an .rtf. Again upon opening, I found the 2nd page footnote had done the same as the first page, for both footnote types. Both were aligned with space between the footnote indicator and the text of the footnote in the .rtf document. The .odt document looked as I had initially typed it. I looked at the Help in Word for Footnotes. While there is information about the Footnote, and how to create/delete/modify one, there is no information or screenshot that shows how one might display. So the alignment adjustment that Word offers, I see nothing to support it as the intended behavior of Word. I do believe; however, that this is a feature and not a true bug. However, I do understand “treshall”s issue in that if you wanted your Footnote to begin directly after the Footnote type, you will not obtain this same behavior in Word. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the issue.
