John Kaufmann wrote:
A few days ago I asked how, in the OO worldview, one should properly
separate paragraphs ("Newline between paragraphs" - the answer was No).
After thinking about the consequences, I followed with a thread ("Line
break and justification withing paragraph?"} that tried to ask a
practical question [that is holding up a paper I'm writing]. That
question received no answers, probably because I (a) asked it poorly and
(b) embedded it in a (verbose) question about design philosophy. May I
try again? [My paper is waiting. ;-)]
This is a common issue, seen all the time, especially in procedural
documents like service manuals: A paragraph with an embedded list. The
first few sentences of the paragraph describe the list, and then the
elements are listed. One would like to treat this, spatially and
conceptually, as a single paragraph.
For such purposes Writer provides the intra-paragraph line break
(Shift+Enter), which breaks the line without invoking the
inter-paragraph spacing. But there is (at least) one problem: It can't
be used with "Justified" paragraph alignment. How can this be handled?
John
If I understand your question correctly, the solution is simpler than
you are trying to make it. Just use a paragraph break instead of trying
to use some type of line break. Each item of the list is in its own
paragraph. Use the paragraph formating tools to adjust the appearance
of each of these paragraphs. (i.e. justification, space between
paragraphs, automatically generated bullets or numbers, etc.) You could
also create a paragraph style with all of the desired characteristics.
You could then apply those characteristics by just applying the style to
those paragraphs.
I hope this helps.
Bob
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