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[Leo H <915059@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Christopher

Thanks for your reply and for your thorough analysis of this bug.

I have submitted this bug to the LibreOffice Bugzilla as you suggested. The bug report is on:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44847

Clearly, the fundamental flaws and weaknesses in LibreOffice Writer Document Compare have been an issue for very long, as is well documented on:
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Track_changes

Evidently, little if anything appears in fact to have been resolved here
since OpenOffice itself was launched, more than 10 years ago now.

Yet I cannot emphasize enough the importance in a professional document
production and editing environment of a competent and fine-grained
Document Compare functionality in LibreOffice Writer for document change
identification, revision management and version control.

I sincerely hope that both Canonical and the Ubuntu community help
pushing this issue to the top of the agenda of the LibreOffice
developers.

Leo

** Bug watch added: freedesktop.org Bugzilla #44847
   https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44847

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Title:
  Compare Document highlighting unchanged words as changed

Status in LibreOffice Productivity Suite:
  Incomplete
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 via the Terminal:

  cd ~/Desktop && wget
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/915059/+attachment/2671476/+files/versions.zip
  && file-roller -h versions.zip && cd versions && lowriter -nologo
  version1.odt

  Edit -> Compare Document -> version2.odt -> Insert button

  is under Actions regarding the first Deletion top to bottom, one tan
  hyphen is shown to the left of "LibreOffice Writer" and "LibreOffice
  Writer" is not marked tan with a tan underline. An example of how it
  should look may be found via the Terminal:

  cd ~/Desktop && wget
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/915059/+attachment/2671477/+files
  /versions-space.zip && file-roller -h versions-space.zip && cd
  versions-space && lowriter -nologo version1-space.odt

  Edit -> Compare Document -> version2-space.odt -> Insert button

  4) What happens instead is the hyphen to the left of "LibreOffice
  Writer" is not shown and "LibreOffice Writer" is marked tan with a tan
  underline.

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