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Christopher, re #9
(1) "The same Document Compare options in OOo are still found in LO at Tools -> Options -> LibreOffice Writer -> Changes."
This is not quite correct. If I remember well, the ability to choose the more fine-grained comparison option was in what in LO now is Tools -> Options -> LibreOffice -> General. (I know it was a rather counter-intuitive place, and not on the Changes tab.) The option has, however, been dropped in LO since LO replaced OOo in Ubuntu.
Also, by the way, as you can see in the sample documents uploaded yesterday, the "Changed Attributes" selection in Tools -> Options -> LibreOffice Writer -> Changes does not work.
(2) You quote http://
I have also seen this, and it is simply stunning. It effectively tells you that you should never use footnotes, headers, frames or fields if there is even the slightest chance that you or someone else will ever edit the document and you then want to identify what has changed.
(3) Overall, the point is, as the 3 uploaded documents show by way of typical example, LO Writer Document Compare identifies 70% changed contents, when the actual changes are only 1.8% in total (0.5% in the text and 1.3% just formatting). And it does not even flag that it is unable to check your footnotes. It's pathetic for a top word processor.
This lack of even the most elementary decent document version comparison forces clients off Ubuntu back to Microsoft Windows with MS Office. I just get depressed when we've put another client on Ubuntu and they come back with this. For many, there is nothing more important than tight document version management and control - otherwise aircraft crash, oil platforms sink, telecomms satellites go dead, confidentiality cannot be guaranteed, legal compliance cannot be enforced, contracts end up in court, you name it.
Please push it hard with whoever pulls the strings on LO. Given the vast efforts spent on OOo and LO over the years, writing a decent fine-grained comparison algorithm must be trivial. (If you fail to convince the powers that be, though, then at least sincere thanks for trying!)