2008/11/4 Brian Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > At 13:02 04/11/2008 +1100, Naz Noname wrote: >> >> I recently installed OOo3 from the Launchpad repo in Ubuntu 8.10 and found >> the following: >> >> In OOo2 you can start bulleting a list by typing an asterisk, then a >> space, then some text and when you press enter it is automatically turned >> into a bullet. These autobullet lists are malformatted in OOo3, and you >> cannot continue them or work with them using the same margins, as OOo3 >> applies its own margins to new bullet items. So, you have to manually >> unbullet each item in the list and use OOo3's menu to add bullets. > > There do appear to be differences between bulleting in versions 2 and 3; I > don't claim to understand them. > >> Furthermore, when I start a bulleted list in a new doc in OOo3, save it >> and close it, and then re-open it, it seems to insert tab chars before each >> bulleted item's text. I delete the tabs, save and close, reopen and they're >> back again. >> >> Is there something I'm doing wrong or can someone confirm that these are >> bugs? > > I suspect that this is not a bug but rather just how version 3 does > bulleting by default. Note that, in bulleting created in version 3 (as you > describe here), you can modify this detail. Go to Format | Bullets and > Numbering... | Position (or right-click | Numbering/Bullets... | Position) > and look at "Numbering followed by". You have the choice of Tab stop (which > appears to be the default), Space, or Nothing. You can also adjust the > various spacing elements on the same panel. > > I trust this helps. > > Brian Barker >
I will do some testing, but having default bulleting formating between versions would be bad yet acceptable. However, displaying odf 1.1 files from OOo2 differently is not acceptable in my opinion. I will get around to it next week and possibly file an issue. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ä-ö-ü-ß-Ä-Ö-Ü
