https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144563
--- Comment #19 from Troy Rollo <[email protected]> --- What a nightmare this project has become. The behaviour was discussed back in 2011 and a specific design agreed then at <https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2011-April/010660.html> - essentially a particular behaviour was defined based on a coherent approach rather than simply adopting the hack in Word. A patch has been committed to address it at <https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/152854> One developer sought to assert that the code should mirror what Word does (which it does not now, because it creates references like "1.(a)" where Word makes them "1(a)"), and has blocked the patch. As a result, LibreOffice is neither doing something compatible with Word, nor doing something coherent or useful. The suggestion in a comment above that "unwanted '.' in the middle of the format" is "very rare" is nonsense - the multi-level list format "1." followed by "(a)" is extremely common and LibreOffice has now been broken for this since around 2021 when there is a working patch for it. The bug is currently unassigned and apparently unmonitored, but it makes professional documents that use this numbering format unnecessarily difficult in LibreOffice. There just seems to be no interest in producing a product suitable for professional use at all. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
