Linux Mint 18.2 Installed Libreoffice and Dutch language package via the following PPA: http://ppa.launchpad.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu xenial main I am using LO 5.3.4.2. and working with Writer. My thesis advisor is a Microsoft Office user. This means that I have to convert my work to .docx files. It is not an option to let her open .odt files; she uses office 2010. The number format of the footnote is not properly converted, however, leaving me with footnotes that do not begin with a superscripted number when opened in Microsoft Word. The steps: 1) Open Libreoffice Writer 2) Click on 'File> New> TextDocument 3) write some text 4) Click on Insert (invoegen in Dutch)> footnote- endnote> footnote. 5) Add text to the footnote 6) press F11, click characterstyles> right-click on footnotecharacters> click modify. The stylemenu for footnote characters is now opened 7) click on position> superscript. The footnote numbers (in Writer) are now superscripted 6) Click File> save> to save as a normal .odt file 7) Click File> save as> choose the .docx format. 7) Press CTRL+q to close Libreoffice Writer 9) Open Microsoft Word 10) open the new .docx in (any version of) Microsoft Word. 11)expected behavior: footnote numbers in the footnote are superscripted. 12) observed behavior: footnote numbers in the footnote are in basic format. Saving it as a .docx file in the first place results in the same behavior. The problem seems to be that the footnote numbers are made-up with a character style. The problem, however, is that this character style is not converted properly when saved in Writer to a .docx file and then opened in Microsoft word. The expected behavior, in my opinion, should be that the footnote number character style is properly converted to a .docx file in such a way that it is also visible in Microsoft Word.
Confirmed using MSWord 2003 and LO6.0dev. Bibisect43all also reproduces this, so likely inherited from OOo, but marking as 3.5 because that is the oldest I can get on bibisect. See bug 82173 for related issues that were fixed for LO 6.0. For some reason, Microsoft Word is not importing the "Footnote Characters" character style applied to the footnote number. P.S. It works fine in .doc format. And it all looks fine in LibreOffice for .docx too. Only in Word is the character style missing. So if this is a LO bug, it is likely in .docx export code.
Created attachment 136077 [details] footnote_superscript.odt: save as .docx and open in MSWord - no superscript
proposed fix at https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/42035
Justin Luth committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=ac1081170c5bc2234b14ce99b7ea8e583bac82b5 tdf#109310 ooxmlexport: write Xnote character style It will be available in 6.0.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
First of all, many, many, many thanks for this fix! I know that you are going to make a lot of people very happy with this. And I know it seems like Libreoffice will not benefit directly from this, and to a certain extent I can agree to that. But at least from now on, whenever I share an academic text with someone in the field who uses MS-word, they will have the same markup as I do which, I am sure, means a lot to many of those who are using Libreoffice in Academia. I am running Libreoffice 5.4 at the moment, so if I've understood it correctly I won't be able to install the latest 6.0 build alongside it, so I can't tell you right away if it works as desired, but be assured that I will check and give you some feedback. Just one more thing. This is my first serious bug report, and the outcome of all of this has been a super positive one for me, so my sincerest compliments for that as well! All the best, MPE
(In reply to maartenpelgrim from comment #5) > I am running Libreoffice 5.4 at the moment, so if I've understood it > correctly I won't be able to install the latest 6.0 build alongside it... I've never tried this myself yet, but browsing through the documentation sounded daunting for Linux. LibreOffice 6 should be available for beta testing in early December (https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleasePlan). A better option for computer buffs would be to download the 5GB bibisect build (daily builds stored in git) from https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/Bibisect - but that again is fairly technical and a huge download. > > Just one more thing. This is my first serious bug report, and the outcome of > all of this has been a super positive one for me, so my sincerest > compliments for that as well! I'm glad that you reported it, and that it was relatively easy to fix. There have been a number of other footnote fixes recently, but still lots more that need attention. See bug 109195 and bug 103164.
Dear people at Libreoffice, I have just installed Libreoffice 6, and of course tested the new footnote conversion capability. Everything seems to work perfectly now, a million thanks for that! MPE
Mike Kaganski committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/+/735964c39097ff952fcaffee6b35c79e210c019c%5E%21 f315fee54eee57e6e55e5fcacf2522534682c2ce follow-up: fix tdf#109310 unit test It will be available in 6.3.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.