Hello, I'll be glad to read your comments on the following idea.
Is it possible/feasible to implement the following functionality: In the Options tab of the Bullets and Numbering dialog box, we add a single new option to the Numbering drop down list, something like 'Custom alphabetical', instead of many different native numberings. When the user selects it, the following controls appear: - Custom letters (text box) - Capitalization (combo box) - Overflow mode (combo box) The settings selected via these controls are stored in the numbering style. Custom letters: When creating a new numbering style of this type, the 'Custom letters' text box is initialized by default with a string of letters corresponding to the locale of the document. Once the numbering style is created, this letter list is stored *in the style*, so that the numbered list stays the same no matter what version of OOo is used to open the document. The (case-insensitive) letter list contains the letters that will be used as itemizers in this style, in the correct order (for example: 'абвгдежзиклмнопрстуфхцчшщъюя', for Bulgarian). Capitalization: Defines the case usage. It allows the following choices: - Lowercase, for numberings such as 'a, b, c, ...' or 'a, ..., aa, ..., aaa, ...' - Uppercase, for numberings such as 'A, B, C, ...' or 'A, ..., AA, ..., AAA, ...' - Title case, for numberings such as 'A, B, C, ...' (continuing with Aa, Ab, ...) or 'A, ..., Aa, ..., Aaa, ...' Overflow mode (couldn't come up with a better name): Defines what happens after the last usable single letter (z, я, etc.). It allows the following choices: - Default mode, for numberings such as 'a, b, c, ...' or 'A, B, C, ...' that continue with ab, ac, ... or AB, AC, ... - Repeating letters, for numberings such as 'a, ..., aa, ..., aaa, ...' or 'A, ..., AA, ..., AAA, ...' This way we would not have to add separate native numbering modes for every non-Roman Western alphabet, such as all flavors of Cyrillic (and maybe Armenian, Georgian, or Greek alphabets, if these languages use such kind of alphabetical itemizing). I am aware that some languages, such as Hebrew, use more complex schemes for alphabetical numbering, but nevertheless the proposed generalization remains useful for many languages. In particular, the four Roman alphabetical numbering schemes are just special cases of this generalized numbering mode. ----------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.kefche.com - Хиляди oн-лайн игри и забавления в Kefche.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
