Issue 52470 - Selecting a sentence by mouse picks up wrong footnote anchor
Summary: Selecting a sentence by mouse picks up wrong footnote anchor
Status: CONFIRMED
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Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: editing (show other issues)
Version: OOo 2.0 Beta
Hardware: All All
: P3 Trivial (vote)
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Reported: 2005-07-25 23:01 UTC by boardquake
Modified: 2013-08-07 14:38 UTC (History)
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Description boardquake 2005-07-25 23:01:32 UTC 
When clicking to select sentence, the footnote anchor belonging to the previous
sentence is also selected.

For example, this sentence ends with a footnote.123 This is the new sentence.
When clicking to select new sentence, the selection begins with "123 This is..."
etc.
Comment 1 michael.ruess 2005-07-26 08:13:26 UTC 
Reassigned to SBA.
Comment 2 eric.savary 2005-07-26 09:38:09 UTC 
In your example, the footnote is part of the second sentence because it is after
the period.
|First sentence here|.1 Second sentence here.|

So there is no defect here.
Comment 3 eric.savary 2005-07-26 09:38:26 UTC 
closed
Comment 4 boardquake 2005-07-26 15:58:48 UTC 
Don't be so dismissive: There may not be a "defect", but it's a feature problem.

In the academic world, the footnote anchor generally comes after the period --
and it belongs to the first sentence.
If I want to edit academic text (e.g., a journal article) and move sentences
around, I run into trouble becuase Writer considers the footnote part of the
second sentence.

Please reconsider.
Comment 5 eric.savary 2005-08-04 16:41:08 UTC 
I know, it may make sense for some special uses as yours but untill now a
sentence is still delimited by 2 periods and so works the Writer.

Let's see what others think about this but I don't think it has a chance to be
implemented...
Comment 6 ace_dent 2008-05-16 00:53:31 UTC 
OpenOffice.org Issue Tracker - Feedback Request.

The Issue you raised is currently assigned to 'Requirements' pending review, but
has not been updated within the last 3 years. Please consider re-testing with
one of the latest versions of OOo, as the problem(s) may have already been
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