2008/11/5 Naz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 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.
>

Thanks, Naz, I will look into that.

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