https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=153315

--- Comment #6 from Yves Poissant <[email protected]> ---
More of my observations:
I took a look at the Linux stack trace. This is consistent with my
observations.

The book contains a lot of footnotes. Several lenghty ones. At least one
spanning more that one full page. Changing the font size, in this case, forces
the paragraphs to lengthen and forces the recompute of paragraphs and footnotes
distributions and pages formatting. Clearly, there are some critical
paragraph-to-footnote relationships that causes troubles to the page
reformating algorithm.

One issue I had, which I can't give exact reproduction steps before the crash
is resolved, was that after I made sure all the pages were properly formatted
and saving the document. Once I reopened the document, some pages had large
gaps of blank space at the bottom of the page. Those pages were invariably
followed by a page with a footnote anchor in the first line. So, clearly, the
footnote reformatting algorithm couldn't figure how to resolve this situation.
I could resolve it manually by deleting the space between the last word and its
previous word of the page with the large blank gap. This brought the rest of
the text and the associated footnote to fill the gap. Then I reinserted the
space between the words and all looked fine. ... Until I saved the document and
reopened it again.

In case you are curious, the book was typeset in 1954 and can be found at
https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.505700/page/n5/mode/2up

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