On 25 June 2010 18:50, Brian Barker <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 × ,ב,×’ 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. >
Thanks. Actually, the requirement is that the page be sent as a Word document (.doc format) and that the references be hand-typed to avoid the character change. This is an academic requirement, there is no room to argue. Yes, I know that forcing students to turn in assignments as Word is bad but that is the assignment. It is a doctorate course and nobody is going to forfeit their doctorate to protest the Word requirement. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
