As a follow up, I would like to note that despite my stupidity earlier,
there still are differences in bulleting between the two versions of
OOo, they just aren't as large as I thought.
The biggest difference seems to be that in OOo2, using explicit bullets,
i.e., highlighting text and then applying bullets from the menu, results
in a different bullet style than if you type an asterisk followed by
some text and then press enter. I call the latter type "autobullets".
In OOo3 however, menu created bullets and autobullets are identical,
which IMHO, is correct. So it seems that the difference is that OOo3
corrects what I see as the bug that OOo2 had whereby autobullets created
bullets that were not replicable using the bullet menu.
In short, OOo2 and OOo3 differ in that OOo3 corrects a behavioral bug.
This kinda sucks for me, as many of my documents were made using this
behavioral bug, but I am happy to swallow the inconvenience knowing that
it's for a good reason.
I would also like to point out that bulleted lists are *still*
incompatible with Abiword. I created a file with bullets in OOo3, opened
it in Abiword, added an item to the bulleted list and then saved and
reopened it in OOo3. Broken.
I would have thought that ODF would have a proper separation of
semantics from syntax, so that the content can be changed and each word
processor will display the file using its own XSLT layer or whatever
mechanism was used. Is that the case? If not, why does this
incompatibility exist? It seems to be to defeat the purpose of ODF if
docs cannot be freely opened and edited in any ODF compatible application.
- Naz.
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