https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34355
--- Comment #6 from Leo H <[email protected]> 2012-01-11 06:51:09 PST --- The key issue is that the "Compare Document" functionality of LibreOffice Writer is woefully inadequate. For example, type (without quotes): "LibreOffice Writer. Compare Document." Save as version1.odt. Then add one space at the start and one paragraph marker after the first period, as follows (again without the quotes): " LibreOffice Writer. Compare Document." Save as version2.odt. Now use "Compare Document" to identify the changes in version2.odt relative to version1.odt: We simply get the full text twice, and EVERYTHING is marked as changed, either as inserted or as deleted. Now try editing and version comparison not of a page with just four words, but of a 40-page report or of a 250-page book: This is simply a catastrophe with whole coloured swathes of repeated identical or near-identical text, but all identified and marked by LibreOffice as completely different. CONCLUSION: "Compare Document" in LibreOffice Writer at the moment is completely clueless and completely useless. Yet fine-grained comparison of versions of a document is an absolutely essential function, eg in editing, in collaborative projects, and similar. The way is which the results of good fine-grained version comparison are presented (eg, in the main text, in a margin, in balloons, or otherwise) is less relevant than the very ability itself to compare and identify precisely and exclusively all true changes. And this also applies to footnotes, endnotes, fields, headers, footers, frames, etc, which are currently completely ignored by LibreOffice Writer "Document Compare". -- Configure bugmail: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. _______________________________________________ Libreoffice-bugs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice-bugs
