Re: [BUG] in export to odt -

[Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us>]

Hi,

Rainer M Krug <Rainer@krugs.de> writes:

> Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us> writes:
>
>> Rainer M Krug <Rainer@krugs.de> writes:
>>
>>> I tried in LibreOffice, and indeed it does not seem to be possible. I
>>> don't know what the convention is, but I don't like that an invald .odt
>>> file is produced. Maybe give a warning about "incompatible features" or
>>> just drop the footnote in the footnote?
>>
>> Dropping it is a possibility, though not a very nice one.
>
> Agreed - for me it doesn't matter anymore, as the footnote in the
> footnote was only a TODO reminder.

We support it in html and latex so we should not take this decision
lightly.

>> You can insert a cross-reference to a footnote within a footnote.  But I
>> don’t know how to insert a footnote without also adding a reference in the
>> text.  If the latter is possible, that way should work.
>
> This sounds like the way to go, but I would suggest that until there is
> a solution (for this apparently not supported feature in LibreOffice?)
> to either drop the footnote and give a warning in emacs, or insert the
> footnote text in the footnote as verbatim text.

I would like to see if someone who knows Libreoffice well will chime in.
I’m sure it’s possible somehow.

I have put Alan in the Cc as he has previously uncovered amazing options
in LO.  Alan: we want to be produce an odt document that mimics something
like the following in LO:

    X[fn:1]
    [fn:1] Y[fn:2]
    [fn:2] Z

Worst case we can check the ODF specification which is sort of readable.

Otherwise, we’ll have to throw a warning.  (Error isn’t good here).

Thanks,
Rasmus

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