Steps: 1. Download attachment 103519 [details] and attachment 103520 [details] 2. Open the .odm Result: layout loop, console showing warnings including: warn:sw.layout:251020:251020:sw/source/core/layout/wsfrm.cxx:3084: footnote frame on different page than ref frame? warn:legacy.osl:277213:277213:sw/source/core/layout/layact.cxx:589: LoopControl_1 in SwLayAction::InternalAction warn:legacy.osl:277437:277437:sw/source/core/layout/layact.cxx:770: LoopControl_3 in Interrupt formatting in SwLayAction::InternalAction warn:sw.layout:277213:277213:sw/source/core/layout/layouter.cxx:190: Looping Louie: Stage 1! Version: 24.8.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: f4ef5435df5560e6b6b061ce4053c71e2819bf51 CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 6.5; UI render: default; VCL: x11 Locale: en-AU (en_AU.UTF-8); UI: en-US Calc: threaded Also on Windows. Bibisected with linux-64-7.6 repo to first bad build [7c9b5f75e3646ec0a55465033fc7c64d13302c28] which points to 5b3fcbf23773ea8d039185dec2b9704981833473 which is a cherrypick of: commit c303981cfd95ce1c3881366023d5495ae2edce97 author Michael Stahl Wed Aug 23 15:50:59 2023 +0200 committer Michael Stahl Thu Aug 24 12:43:25 2023 +0200 tdf#156724 sw: layout: fix tables not splitting due to footnotes differently Reviewed-on: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/155988 Michael, can you please have a look?
Michael Stahl committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/534d3818aedfa95ad73935235462f5ec2817f5da tdf#160897 sw: layout: fail SwTabFrame::Split on footnote overlap It will be available in 24.8.0. 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.
the layout loop should be fixed now, but the layout is still bad on some pages. but in 7.5 it was already differently bad, so i doubt that can be called a regression.