You answer on the ML without reference to the GDoc proposal where most of the issues should be solved. Hope I didn't mess up with the approval (everyone is allowed to comment). And you talk about character style and not paragraph, right? Otherwise it's a bug since ODF talks explicitly about the first.
On 04/04/2017 11:02 PM, Regina Henschel wrote: > Hi Heiko, > > I think there are some things, which need more than a new dialog: > > There exists a lot of paragraph styles named "Numbering" and "List", > but they have no connection to the corresponding list styles. > > It is possible to set a paragraph style to an outline level and > connect it with a list style. But the list level is not bind to the > outline level. (You need this kind of outline heading, if you give an > appendix an ABC outline numbering and your text has a 123 outline > numbering.) > > The numbered items in a text box do not build a list, so that > changing the level of one item will not adapt the other numbers. The > numbering dialog for a text box seems to be the same, but the > position concept is different. > > The presentation object "Outline text" has a strange mix of > hierarchical styles, settings for numbering and bullets, but no > "position". You need to set the position in each item individually. > Here too the position concept is different from Writer. > > It is very confusing (in Writer), that with the cursor in a heading, > assigning a list style, or using "Bullets and Numbering" from the > context menu, or clicking on the symbols in the toolbar, do very > different things to the heading. > > Kind regards Regina > > Heiko Tietze schrieb: >> Hello all, >> >> we have many tickets regarding numbering & bullets and outlines. >> The problem has also a high relevance in the Nantes user >> interviews, not knowing the details though. >> >> Good time to think about a different solution: >> >> https://docs.google.com/document/d/16-6zkZl5LiICnUILhv1CfIHIdyQFyTJKp7XGST5zq5U >> >> >> The proposal was made having the new area fill style dialog in mind >> where three columns make a) the selection from pre- and >> user-defined options simple, b) users get a full overview of all >> settings, and c) preview shows how it looks in the end. The old >> numbering logic is turned upside down a bit making the list styles >> predominant as the preset. And since users may not be aware of the >> different types, the numbering, bullets, and outline are merged >> together. >> >> All comments are welcome- and we should have a design session >> eventually. >> >> Cheers, Heiko >> > > -- Dr. Heiko Tietze UX Designer Tel. +49 (0)179/1268509 -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: design+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
