On 12/11/2012, at 16:42, Gary Schnabl <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 11/6/2012 2:56 AM, Peter Schofield wrote: >> Hello Jean >> >> I have just picked up my email and would like to make a comment about >> templates. >> >> Is it possible to simplify the number of styles used in the template. For >> example, the list style has three styles - start; cont; end. It would be >> much better to have only two styles - List1 or Number1 for a normal list >> and List2 and Number2 for a sub-list that is indented to start at the text >> for List1 or Number1. >> >> Enjoying my holiday. Plenty of sun, swimming and beer. >> >> Regards >> >> PeterS > > The primary purpose for the Start, Cont., and End paragraph styles associated > with the individual List n or Number n paragraph styles is to add some extra > vertical space after the very last list entry, regardless of its level (of > nesting). IOW, the formatting goal is to have only one such "End" entry in a > multilevel list (with the extra space), and that "End" style is assigned to > the very last list item, which could be at any nesting level, depending upon > whatever it was that the author wrote. > > One manner of eliminating those Start, Cont., and End styles for the > individual list nesting levels would be to define the overall list > differently--as a block that applies the extra vertical space automatically > at the end of the "''blocked" list (before the next style following the list). > > Gary That's all very print oriented formatting, which does not necessarily translate nicely, if at all, into other formats. Seems to me like an unnecessary level of detail. Jean -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] 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/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
