https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=126216
Anca Lostun <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #8 from Anca Lostun <[email protected]> --- I was able to replicate the problem on: - Apache Open Office 4.2.0 (AOO420m1(Build:9800) - Rev. 1829211) - Windows 10 Home When reopening a file saved as .rtf in AOO, an extra tab character seems to be inserted at the beginning of a footnote or endnote, making the text shift to the right. Other file formats don't seem to be affected. Steps to reproduce 1. Open AOO and create a new Text Document 2. Add a few lines of text (optional) 3. Go to Insert > Footnote/Endnote and add a Footnote 4. Save as .odt and close the file 5. Reopen the file Note that the footnote text remains as it was initially inserted. 6. Repeat steps 1 to 3 7. Save as .rtf and close the file 8. Reopen the .rtf file *Actual result* The text is shifted to the right. It looks like a tab character has been inserted at the beginning of the line. *Expected result* The text is displayed the same as when it was saved, no added characters or different formatting/alignment. https://www.screencast.com/t/QTmsaUjShlB Additional tests - in AOO, save file with footnotes as .doc (Word95, Word 97) and .html -> problem not reproduced when reopening file in AOO - in AOO, save file with endnotes as .rtf -> endnote text is shifted to the right when reopening file (problem not reproduced for files with endnotes saved as .odt, .doc, .html) - in AOO, save .rtf file having footnotes with several new lines of text -> tab is inserted before each new line - in MS Word 2007, save file with footnotes as .doc, .docx, .rtf, .htm -> no extra characters added when reopening files in Word -> no extra characters added when reopening files in AOO In my opinion, this behavior of AOO is a bug considering the following perspectives: a) Consistency within the product. For other file formats supported by AOO, the footnote text is displayed in the same way as it was when initially saved. b) User expectations. Formatting and alignment are important features of any word processor and users spend significant time in making the text look good. Normal expectations are that the file looks the same as you last saved it. Also, since the problem occurs only after reopening the file, the users might not even be aware that something has changed and it doesn't look as they intended in the first time. Doing a quick search on https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/search.php for formatting issues on footnotes in AOO Writer there are about 200 results returned so this looks like an important matter to the users. c) Text readability. If we take as example a normal Wikipedia page, we can see that footnotes can be quite long, they extend over several lines of text. It would be beneficial for the look and feel of the document to align footnotes in such a way that they take advantage of all the space available. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the issue.
