Joe,
Barbara helped me to see that a table can be superimposed on a
structured list, or a structured list on a table, and studying your
example <http://martnet.com/~jes/temp/Annotated_list_sample.odt> was
crucial to my appreciation of the design philosophy - as was this:
In a message dated 2009.10.02 16:16 -0500, Joe Smith wrote:
Writer's lists are little odd. As far as the user sees, there is no
'list', just a set of paragraphs that are labeled consistently. The
items in a list can just as well appear in separate table cells, or
spread over the entire document. The items are simply paragraphs and
they can appear anywhere a paragraph can appear and still be labeled
consistently.
So it's easy here: Each table row has a list element in the left cell
and the corresponding description in the right cell.
In retrospect, I'm embarrassed that thinking in a different model made
me so slow to see that point. I appreciate that succinct summary.
In addition, your example /without/ table ('Paragraphs with numbering')
was fascinating, and took me longer to see, but taught a lot about
embedding a list style inside a paragraph style. Thanks for that, which
should come in handy in other kinds of cases.
Thank you so much for [making an example document] - but it looks
like the /hierarchical/ listing is lost; is that correct?
... I don't understand what you mean by 'hierarchical', beside
outline-style indentation, which is still there when I view it.
So sorry - that question came from first viewing your example in OO 2.2,
which is what was on the computer (not mine) where I read your example
document. In that case, the indentation was gone. I should have
suspected a version problem, but did not think about it. After reading
it in OO 3.1, though, that problem went away, and I could see it as you
wrote it. Please excuse my failure to be more thorough before posting
that question.
It was a terrific, helpful reply; thank you for that,
John
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