“Plain text” with note will have whitespace appended behind the footnote after import.[1]
[1] Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.
“Citation” text:area without footnote will have whitespace appended behind the text:area after import.
“Citation” text:area with fotenote will have whitespace appended behind the text:area and behind the footnote after import[2]
[2] Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.
For the purposes of this example all non-tagged whitespace was been removed from the above paragraphs in the FODT-source.
LibreOffice 3.3.2
OOO330m19 (Build:202)
tag libreoffice-3.3.2.2, Debian package 1:3.3.2-2