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["Christopher M. Penalver" <christopher.penalver@xxxxxxx>]

** Description changed:

  Binary package hint: libreoffice
- 
- OpenOffice 3.2 Writer contained one major improvement over earlier
- versions, which had been overdue for years:  It offered for the first
- time the ability to fine-tune the options when comparing two documents
- (Edit > Compare Documents...).  This ability to select Document Compare
- options (via Tools > Options...) has now been dropped again in
- LibreOffice 3.3.2, installed with the Ubuntu upgrade to 11.04.
  
  Comparing two files has reverted to the old OOo behaviour of flagging
  entire long sequences of paragraphs as different, when in fact they are
  actually identical except maybe for just one or two minor typographical
  differences.
- 
- The ability to compare documents efficiently is absolutely essential
- when editing long and complex documents in a production environment.
- 
- Until OOo 3.2, the only real choice was to revert to Microsoft Office
- just for the purpose of document comparison and to let MS Word precisely
- detect the differences.  OOo 3.2 was the first real improvement here,
- but in LibreOffice we are now back to square one.
- 
- Please bring back this essential key feature -- the code must still be
- there --, and hopefully, refine it further so at to detect any changes
- more precisely.
- 
- Note:  Document Comparison also still does not work at all in footnotes.
- Two documents with differences only in the text of footnotes are
- erroneously flagged as identical.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/782406

Title:
  LibreOffice Writer Document Compare (regression)

Status in “libreoffice” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: libreoffice

  Comparing two files has reverted to the old OOo behaviour of flagging
  entire long sequences of paragraphs as different, when in fact they
  are actually identical except maybe for just one or two minor
  typographical differences.

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