https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=127146

Justin L <[email protected]> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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           See Also|                            |https://bugs.documentfounda
                   |                            |tion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10
                   |                            |6062,
                   |                            |https://bugs.documentfounda
                   |                            |tion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15
                   |                            |9382
             Blocks|                            |88173

--- Comment #11 from Justin L <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Jackson Sul from comment #9)
> Just tired of manually going to each footnote and hitting space when I need
> to send someone a decently-formatted docx.

At first I was confused about this complaint. When I add footnotes to an ODT in
LibreOffice, the number is followed by what appears to be a tabstop space
(although this is actually just a special first-line indent - must be special
layout handling to deal with footnote numbering before - see bug 159382).
Apparently it is often converted into a real tabstop when round-tripping to
DOC/DOCX formats (see bug 106062).

Oh - I think I might understand. If you go into "Tools - Footnote/Endnote
Settings" and set something in the "After" field, then it uses that instead of
the tabstop - and then as this bug report points out, those are lost on the
round-trip, and that setting is lost too.

That also means that when you use LO to add a new footnote into a DOC/X file,
then there is no space added (because there is no first-line-indent, and there
is no "After" character). But at least this is WYSIWYG. It just doesn't
automatically insert a real space character like MS Word helpfully does.

Important to note that the stuff in "Tools - Footnote/Endnote settings" is just
layout/display information. It is not "part of the text" and so it is not
written out to DOC/X files. So, for example, defaulting "After" to be a space
during DOCX import would destroy the correct layout of existing DOCX files (and
remember, it isn't written out to the file anyway...).

Basically, "Tools - Footnote/Endnote settings" should be disabled during DOCX
import.


Referenced Bugs:

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88173
[Bug 88173] [META] DOCX (OOXML) format limitations
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