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. -- 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
