Thank you for the explanation. The round tripping from XXE to Word and back to XXE of text with a footnote was an unusual part of my workflow; I do not think it will happen very often. I had just been lazy and copied a chunk of edited text from Word rather than editing my master xml document after a customer review. Now I am aware of it, I can keep an eye out for it if it happens again.
Thank you for the quick fix for the 'real' bug. Vic Steadman Executive Consultant Mobile: +44 (0) 7940 507304 -----Original Message----- From: Hussein Shafie [mailto:huss...@xmlmind.com] Sent: 09 May 2018 08:59 To: Vic Steadman <vic.stead...@aspirecl.com> Cc: 'xmleditor-support@xmlmind.com' <xmleditor-support@xmlmind.com> Subject: Re: [XXE] Paste From Word - Footnotes On 05/09/2018 08:15 AM, Vic Steadman wrote: > > Thank you for your quick response. I am sorry for my delay in sending you > the files you asked for due to a holiday in the UK and difficulty reproducing > the superscript problem in text that I can share with you. > No problem. > I have realised that this 2nd problem only occurs when I paste MS Word > text that was created using XMLMind back into XMLMind (after my > customer had reviewed my drafts in Word) > > See the example files. > ... Footnote Text.docx is the original MS Word file containing footnotes: "Footnote Text.docx" has been created using the XMLmind XSL-FO Converter add-on and not using MS-Word. > ... Footnote Text.dita is that text pasted into XML Mind. > ... Footnote Text2.docx is the result when published to Word 2007+ - no > problem with footnote numbering. "Footnote Text2.docx" already contains double footnote numbers. Open it in MS-Word and you'll immediately see this. Anyway this is really not a problem. "Footnote Text.docx" alone is sufficient to diagnose the issue. See explanations below. > ... Footnote Text2.dita is this 2nd word document pasted into XMLMind - the > footnotes now contain extra numbering > > When this last file is published to MS Word it contains the double footnote > numbers. XXE's "Paste From Word" facility (and also our "Word To XML" add-on, which is "Paste From Word" on steroids) have not been designed to be good at this kind of round-tripping between MS-Word and XXE. XXE's "Paste From Word" facility and the "Word To XML" add-on have been designed to be as good as possible at dealing with files created "by hand" using MS-Word. The double footnote numbers come from the fact that XMLmind XSL-FO Converter generates DOCX markup, which once copied to the clipboard by MS-Word gives us the following HTML (A): --- <span style='mso-bookmark:I_d39e21_'><sup><span lang=EN style='font-size:8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>(2)</span></sup></span> --- While MS-Word generates a different DOCX markup, which once copied to the clipboard by MS-Word gives us the following HTML (B): --- <span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span style='mso-special-character: footnote'><![if !supportFootnotes]><span class=MsoFootnoteReference><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language: EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA'>[2]</span></span><![endif]></span></span> --- In a nutshell, - In case (B), XXE's "Paste From Word" has sufficient information (class=MsoFootnoteReference) to get rid of the footnote numbering. - In case (A), out of the box, XXE's "Paste From Word" thinks that "<sup>(2)</sup>" is part of the body of the footnote and as such, will not discard it. > > I am using: > > Microsoft Office 365 ProPlus > Version 1708 (Build 8431.2242 > By the way, the first issue you have reported is fixed now, both in XXE's "Paste From Word" facility and also in the "Word To XML" add-on. You can patch your XXE v8.0 copy if you want. Simply replace <XXE_install_dir>/addon/paste_from_word/xslt/topic.xslt by attached file. -- XMLmind XML Editor Support List xmleditor-support@xmlmind.com http://www.xmlmind.com/mailman/listinfo/xmleditor-support
