Created attachment 50231 [details] example.odt Downstream bug may be found at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/150937 OOo bug may be found at: http://openoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=42424 1) lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 11.04 Release: 11.04 2) apt-cache policy libreoffice-writer libreoffice-writer: Installed: 1:3.3.3-1ubuntu2 Candidate: 1:3.3.3-1ubuntu2 Version table: *** 1:3.3.3-1ubuntu2 0 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 1:3.3.2-1ubuntu5 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty-updates/main i386 Packages 1:3.3.2-1ubuntu4 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main i386 Packages 3) What is expected to happen in Writer via the Terminal: cd ~/Desktop && wget https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/150937/+attachment/2144278/+files/example.odt && lowriter -nologo example.odt and hover the mouse icon over the object is the entire footnote is displayed as it does in Word screenshot https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/150937/+attachment/2144302/+files/Screenshot.png 4) What happens instead is it displays truncated.
Failed to reproduce on LibreOffice 3.4 340m1(Build:103) for OpenSuse Linux. I think the problem has less to do with the display being truncated and more to do with the fact that LO doesn't recognize ENTER in footnotes. After I delete the enter betweens lines 1, 2, 3, and 4, it displays line 1, line 2, line 3, and line 4 just as MS Word does fine. So there may be a difference in interpretation (LO does not recognize paragraphs, while MS does), but this problem does not seem to concern large footnotes.
[This is an automated message.] This bug was filed before the changes to Bugzilla on 2011-10-16. Thus it started right out as NEW without ever being explicitly confirmed. The bug is changed to state NEEDINFO for this reason. To move this bug from NEEDINFO back to NEW please check if the bug still persists with the 3.5.0 beta1 or beta2 prereleases. Details on how to test the 3.5.0 beta1 can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/BugHunting_Session_3.5.0.-1 more detail on this bulk operation: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/RFC-Operation-Spamzilla-tp3607474p3607474.html
Reproducible in: LOdev 3.5.0beta2 Build ID: 8589e48-760cc4d-f39cf3d-1b2857e-60db978 Microsoft Windows Vista Business 6.0.6002 Service Pack 2 Build 6002
Taking a quick look at the code, it seems that SwFmtFtn::GetFtnText() in sw/source/core/txtnode/atrftn.cxx returns only one text node from the footnote. If the footnote contains multiple paragraphs, then only the first paragraph is returned. However, I did not find the way to get the number of text nodes in a given footnote. It is not stored in the object. You can use "soft returns" (Shift+Enter) to separate lines in footnotes, that works.
Closing as RESOLVED/FIXED for LibreOffice 4.0 as per: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit?id=675f723f83d110bec4a9a4c5fa09ad965d240d2a @atimar, nemeth: could you quickly confirm?
(In reply to comment #5) That patch did not resolve the multi-paragraph issue, just the long footnote text issue.
Laszlo Nemeth committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=bf063d9dfab7ca16b1b7dff54ec9b1d47c24b997 fdo#40102 show full footnote text in index tooltip 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.
Laszlo Nemeth committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-4-0": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=3263ce60c9ccede366ee2e24667ca10a6f823659&h=libreoffice-4-0 fdo#40102 show full footnote text in index tooltip It will be available in LibreOffice 4.0.4. 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.