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It’s funny you mentioned footnotes as being important to you. When my company was considering upgrading from Office 2003 to 2010, I pushed hard for LibreOffice.

by lbenes 12y ago

It’s funny you mentioned footnotes as being important to you. When my company was considering upgrading from Office 2003 to 2010, I pushed hard for LibreOffice. When we ran the shared drive folder though the batch converter, we found many more interoperability issue with LibreOffice than competing suites like WPS Office. Broken footnotes/endnotes was a major reoccurring issue. Four years later, and this basic word processing feature is still broken. [1] If they just focused on interoperability, they’d be much more competitive in the business world. [1] https://www.libreoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58521 https://www.libreoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58521

mikekchar 12y ago
You may find it interesting to note that pagination for footnotes and endnotes have always been broken in Word (and will probably continue to be broken in the future so as to maintain backward compatibility with pagination in older versions). I used to work at Corel on WordPerfect and this is practically the only reason WordPerfect is still a viable product -- the US DOJ must have correct pagination of footnotes. Your link didn't work for me, so I couldn't see what kind of bugs you are referring to, but there are probably some DOC import bugs that are practically impossible to fix because Word renders things incorrectly in the first place.
- lbenes 12y ago
  http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:uJIN57kmO0YJ:https://www.libreoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi%3Fid%3D58521+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:uJIN57k... I don’t know what style requirement the DOJ had, but I do know that when the marketing team put a footnote on one page, and LibreOffice moved it on a separate page, they considered it a serious bug. If Word renders a .doc file a certain way, LibreOffice should also render it that way regardless of what the DOJ specifies. WP was a great product. I miss those days of being able to fix most anything with reveal codes.

by lbenes 12y ago

mikekchar 12y ago

You may find it interesting to note that pagination for footnotes and endnotes have always been broken in Word (and will probably continue to be broken in the future so as to maintain backward compatibility with pagination in older versions). I used to work at Corel on WordPerfect and this is practically the only reason WordPerfect is still a viable product -- the US DOJ must have correct pagination of footnotes. Your link didn't work for me, so I couldn't see what kind of bugs you are referring to, but there are probably some DOC import bugs that are practically impossible to fix because Word renders things incorrectly in the first place.

lbenes 12y ago
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:uJIN57kmO0YJ:https://www.libreoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi%3Fid%3D58521+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:uJIN57k... I don’t know what style requirement the DOJ had, but I do know that when the marketing team put a footnote on one page, and LibreOffice moved it on a separate page, they considered it a serious bug. If Word renders a .doc file a certain way, LibreOffice should also render it that way regardless of what the DOJ specifies. WP was a great product. I miss those days of being able to fix most anything with reveal codes.