Bug 103249

Summary:	Enhancement: convert all footnotes to endnotes at once (and/or vice versa) plus additional conversion options
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	Joss Brown <joss.brown>
Component:	Writer	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	cno, jmadero.dev, joss.brown
Priority:	medium
Version:	Inherited From OOo
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Bug Blocks:	103164

Description Joss Brown 2016-10-15 18:18:39 UTC

Description:
The option to convert all notes in one shot would be a great feature for authors or typesetters with documents that contain a lot of footnotes or endnotes. It is very easy to do it manually, in the case of odt files by unzipping contents.xml from the .odt, then just changing the note-class instances accordingly, e.g. with the sed command, then updating the odt with the zip command. (For fodt files it's even simpler to do.) So I assume it would be comparably easy to implement it into LibreOffice Writer. There should also be a couple of sub-options:

(1) Exchange footnotes and endnotes
[This would change all footnotes into endnotes, and all previous endnotes into footnotes]
(2) Change footnotes into endnotes and merge with existing endnotes
(3) Change endnotes into footnotes and merge with existing footnotes
[Sub-options 2 & 3 would require renumbering.]

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Reproducible: Always

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_6) AppleWebKit/602.1.50 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/10.0 Safari/602.1.50

Comment 1 Joel Madero 2016-10-16 05:14:29 UTC

Fine enhancement request.

For a workaround: https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/5341/is-there-a-way-to-convert-all-footnotes-to-endnotes-and-vice-versa/

Thanks for the suggestion. Just a heads up that volunteers tackle enhancements so there is no guarantee that this will ever be done. Someone would have to find it interesting enough to deal with.

Comment 2 Joss Brown 2016-10-16 14:22:35 UTC

Thank you for the quick reply. I understand the development situation, and it's not pressing for me. I have created a little workflow that will do the conversion, if I need it: https://github.com/JayBrown/nnConv (Will try to add docx support as well, but that format is way crazier.) The workflow is macOS only, so in the end a LibreOffice Writer in-software solution would be better for all users.

Comment 3 Joel Madero 2016-10-16 15:58:44 UTC

(In reply to Joss Brown from comment #2)
> Thank you for the quick reply. I understand the development situation, and
> it's not pressing for me. I have created a little workflow that will do the
> conversion, if I need it: https://github.com/JayBrown/nnConv (Will try to
> add docx support as well, but that format is way crazier.) The workflow is
> macOS only, so in the end a LibreOffice Writer in-software solution would be
> better for all users.

Fantastic. If you're ever in the mood to swing into our chat to say hello - always looking for new hands to help out with the endless task of triaging and finding bugs :)

http://webchat.freenode.net/?channel=libreoffice-qa

Comment 4 Timur 2020-03-23 09:55:43 UTC

Rule of thumb is to search first. Looks like a duplicate.
If you have sth. to add, please write there,

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 89352 ***