At 18:25 25/06/2010 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
A user has a Writer file with an ordered list of
references. This file will be sent to another
party. This list _must_ be Arabic Numerical
1,2,3 no matter what the _other_party_ has
configured for their ordered list preferences
(1,2,3 or a,b,c or ×,×,× or I,II,III) on
their computer. Other than writing them out by
hand, how can the user configure the list to always be Arabic numerical?
Send the document as a PDF file?
The point of distributing documents as word
processor documents - of any format - is to allow
further editing at the far end. If you allow
further editing, you have no control over what
the recipient does with your work and therefore
over such facets as you mention. If you allow
your correspondent to edit a document, you cannot
make the stipulation you suggest. A PDF
document, on the other hand (and as its name
suggests), is designed to be more portable and
for its appearance to depend less on software,
platform, fonts, formats, paper sizes, printers,
default text direction, and so on.
In any case, surely the choice of numbering style
is preserved for a particular list in a
particular document, with the other user's
default affecting only new material? If not, you
could always create a numbered list manually -
with the numbers being simply part of your text.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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