Am Montag, 21. November 2005 14:39 schrieb Alan Chandler: > 1) What is the difference between outline numbering and list numbering. > Are they completely independent of one another.
Completely different, completely independent. Outline: Chapters, headlines, title, subtitle etc etc. List: A sequence of things, thoughts, etc which need to be counted. > 2) Following on from the first question, there are two similar but > different dialogs. The Tools/Outline Numbering and the Format/Bullets and > numbering. Is the former soley for outline numbering and the latter soley > for list numbering? Yes. > 3) Following on from the second question - the tools/outline numbering > allows you to allocate a style to each level, where as the format/bullets > and numbering doesn't. How do the format of list numbering get remembered > in a style (or doesn't it?) Oh yes it does. F11 opens the stylist. One of the icons is for paragraph styles (incl. headings etc), one of the others is for numbered/bulletes styles. > 4) When editing a style definition, the numbering tab refers to another > style. What does this actually do - it seems to point to something with > exactly the same characteritics as the style you are editing. What > characteristics get inheritied and when? It refers to one of the numbering styles, which all you find actually listed in the numbering styles (see 3)). So if you decide to turn a paragraph into a part of a numbered list then it will invoke the numbering style it is associated to. > 5) How do you specify in a style (so that it gets remembered) what the > style of numbering is (ie 1,2,3 or a,b,c or i,ii,ii). ... remembered. What do you mean? Every time you click on the icon "numbered list" just above the text area? Then you have a problem. For some reason it hasn't been implemented to redefine the default numbering style "for good". Can't find the RFE in Issuezilla right now. > 6) The "numbering on/off" button on the toolbar seems to affect both > outline and list style numbering. Does it? It shouldn't affect outline numbering. Although it could (I haven't checked) change the association to a heading style into an association to some paragraph style, to be able to change the outline numbering into a numbered list. > How does this interact with the menu > commands? By that I mean what exactly is it switching off and what exactly > is it switching on again when you interact with it. In particular, when > you toggle it off and on again, all the numbering styles that had been set > up in the two dialog boxes I mention in question 2 seem to get reset to a > default value (1,2,3 ...). Is this supposed to happen, and why or is it a > bug? Is it possible somewhere else to define this default value that it > gets set to? Maybe this has been answered in 5) > 5) If I select (F11) the styles and formating dialog and right click on a > style and choose modify and then select the numbering tab. I then select > the help button. This gives a help message which says > > "Select the outline level that you want to apply to the paragraph. > > Numbering Style > > Select the Numbering Style that you want to apply to the paragraph. These > styles are also listed in the Styles and Formatting window if you click the > Numbering Style icon. > > Edit > > Opens a dialog to edit the numbering style." > > I don't have an edit button, and this seems to be exactly the button I need > to do the things I am struggling with above. Where has it gone? - do I > need to do something else to make it appear? Answered in 3) I hope. > ---- > > As you can see quite a lot of questions. The main thing I want to do is > set up a style in which the indents and the numbering scheme is remembered. Oh well. See 5): No way I'm afraid. I need to find the Issue so that you can add your votes to have this implemented. Right. Here it is: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=9437 Guido --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
