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[Ivan Kharlamov <903608@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Little bit of history behind my bug report:
Few of my fellows have recently moved from Windows to Linux Mint(11.04). All of them say that LibreOffice Writer is a decent editor and they didn't have trouble adapting to it, but they are complaining about ONE SINGLE ANNOYANCE which is described in this bug report. They have hundreds of footnotes in their scientific papers and to change font style after every footnote seems insane. 

I have already installed MS Word via Wine for one of them. The issue is
serious, it is pushing users away from your otherwise good product.
Please, fix it ASAP.

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Title:
  [Upstream] LibreOffice text remains superscript if typed right after
  footnote

Status in LibreOffice Productivity Suite:
  Confirmed
Status in The OpenOffice.org Suite:
  New
Status in “libreoffice” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  1) lsb_release -rd
  Description:	Ubuntu 11.10
  Release:	11.10

  2) apt-cache policy libreoffice-writer
  libreoffice-writer:
    Installed: 1:3.4.4-0ubuntu1
    Candidate: 1:3.4.4-0ubuntu1
    Version table:
   *** 1:3.4.4-0ubuntu1 0
          500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric-updates/main i386 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
       1:3.4.3-3ubuntu2 0
          500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main i386 Packages

  3) What is expected to happen in LibreOffice Writer importing a Word
  created file via the Terminal:

  cd ~/Desktop && wget -c
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/903608/+attachment/2630995/+files/footnoteformattingbug_1.doc
  -O example.doc && lowriter -nologo example.doc

  on page 1 if one clicks immediately after superscript footnote 1 and
  begins to type, the characters are not superscript, as it would occur
  in Word.

  4) What happens instead is the characters are superscript as shown in
  https://launchpadlibrarian.net/87353347/libreofficeformattingbug.ogv

  WORKAROUND: Click immediately after the footnote and press
  Ctrl+Shift+P then begin typing as desired. This is documented at:
  http://help.libreoffice.org/Writer/Making_Text_Superscript_or_Subscript

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