John Moran 0 Report post Posted December 6, 2005 (edited) TMG Journal footnote/endnote font sizing errors (RTF export only) exposed in tests of OpenOffice.org writer are apparent in MSWord 2002 also. It may be that TMG RTF coding exported in Journal Reports is designed to be backward compatible with a maximum number of older text editors, but the coding appears to be inconsistent with the Microsoft Word 2003 RTF spec and gives errors in both Word 2002 and OpenOffice.org 2.0 Journal Reports in those applications. Specifically, in Word, footnote numbers may be incorrectly superscripted in default 12 point font, rather than the specified non-superscripted font, which is typically 8 point. In OpenOffice.org writer, footnote errors seem apparent only in footnote numbers for citations containing italics. For those citations, the font size for footnote numbers jumps from specified 8 point font to the default 12 point "fallback" font for RTF commands not understood. Or so it seems from this end of the tunnel. There seemed to be a "quick fix" find and replace substitution of italic coding in the RTF file, but that only showed different errors in Bold. It is not a deal breaker for either Word or Open Office, but it makes Open Office, which is the new kid on the block appear in error, when it fact it may be working exactly in accordance with the 2003 spec, and that OOo errors are just more obvious. Note: In previous tests, similar errors were noted in discontinued UFT RTF exports. John Edited December 6, 2005 by John Moran Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
