Description: If a Writer document has at any point been imported from DOC or DOCX then the following options (all related to size and positioning) are no longer available to control from the Footnote Page Style options UI. Further, these options are not honoured in the rendering of documents on affected versions if their settings have been restored and re-saved by an unaffected version. * Space to text * Position * Length * Spacing to footnote contents The missing options are not restored if the document is re-saved and reloaded as ODF and are not available for new Page Styles either. This appears to be a regression since 7.0.4 as all the affected options are available in 7.0.4 when an affected document is opened and the features are rendered correctly. Documents saved by later versions retain the setting for these options and continue to render correctly in 7.0.4. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Save a new, empty document in both ODF and DOCX formats. 2. Close the document. 3. Open the ODF document and DOCX documents. Actual Results: The relevant options will be available in the opened ODF documents. The relevant options will not be available in the opened DOCX documents. Expected Results: The relevant options will be available in the opened DOCX document. The relevant options will be available in the opened ODF document. Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info: FAILING VERSION Version: 24.8.1.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 480(Build:2)a CPU threads: 24; OS: Linux 6.8; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: en-GB (en_GB.UTF-8); UI: en-US Ubuntu package version: 4:24.8.1-0ubuntu0.22.04.1~lo1 Calc: threaded UNAFFECTED VERSION Version: 7.0.4.2 Build ID: 00(Build:2) CPU threads: 1; OS: Linux 5.10; UI render: default; VCL: x11 Locale: en-GB (en_GB.UTF-8); UI: en-US Debian package version: 1:7.0.4-4+deb11u10 Calc: threaded
Created attachment 196618 [details] Page Style 'Footnotes' tab missing options
Created attachment 196619 [details] Page Style 'Footnotes' tab as it should be
Once the file was a DOCX the options for Footnote are not recovered in ODT, even after restarting LO. Version: 25.2.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 5b54f68599d9a9b6f4d21fd8c0cdac746ea71ecb CPU threads: 16; OS: Windows 11 X86_64 (10.0 build 22631); UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win Locale: es-ES (es_ES); UI: en-US Calc: CL threaded
Changing the 'ContinuousEndnotes' config option from true to false in FODT fixes the issue for affected documents. It is not obvious how this option can be cleared from the UI. <config:config-item config:name="ContinuousEndnotes" config:type="boolean">false</config:config-item> I have also confirmed that this bug is not an issue in 24.2.5, so presumably it is a regression from the fix to bug 58521! LATEST UNAFFECTED RELEASE Version: 24.2.5.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 420(Build:2) CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 6.10; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: en-GB (en_GB.UTF-8); UI: en-GB Debian package version: 4:24.2.5-4 Calc: threaded
If you edit a document imported from Word, the default UI will hide the options that would have no effect, anyway. You can change this default behavior by going to: Tools -> Options -> Writer -> Compatibility -> "Render endnotes at the end of the document" and unticking the checkbox. Does that help? If we would show these options by default, then the other group of people will complain, arguing that they just opened their Word file, they set something on the UI and it has no effect, which would be buggy.
Thanks! Yes, I found the UI for the option after I posted. This works fine for a workaround, so I would agree that the bug could be downgraded to minor on this basis. I am sure it is correct that switching the default back would just be a game of whack-a-mole. However, it is unclear why endnote and footnote users should have their fate linked in this way. Does the implementation of ContinuousEndnotes necessarily prevent footnote positioning from being controlled by the user?