On Monday 21 Nov 2005 16:17, J. Magalhães Cruz wrote: > Alan, > > I think that the numbering/outlining implementation of OOo is > unnecessarily complicated and rather unintuitive! > Some months ago, I initiated a thread in this list about this same subject > (follow the thread on > http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=users&msgId=2047526; see > below my original message). Unfortunately, most of the readers just read > it; and a couple of users tried to convince me (without success) that it > was justified to have a separation between numbering and paragraph > formatting (stylewise or not). Even if the interfered with each other!!! > :-|
I started to read the thread. I can see where its going. I will follow it some more in a minute. I am not sure sure I agree with you, but I will follow the thread through I think part of the problem is there there is something wrong with the implementation (see below), and the help files assume you already know what you are doing. Just as an example of the unintuitive mess you can get into, I attach a little jpg file. Just in case it gets filtered out from this mailing list let me explain what it shows. It is an indented paragraph in which the first line consist of a definition, a tab and then the explanation of the definition. This is formatted so that the first line's left margin is at 1cm and the subsequent lines are all indented to 6cm. To that I have attempted to add numbering. I want two digits, where the first digit comes from the previous heading - the second is sequentially numbered throughout the section. So I added the style into the Tools, outline numbering. Now look where it left me. First, the margin markers in the ruler do not line up with the text. Secondly the number seems to lined up with the first line paragraph margin - the help file tells me it should be lined up with the left margin of the page. The first line has 1.2 "Agreement"<tab>Means the signature .... - Some text which should be lined up with the second lines and beyond. BUT it is impossible to make it so without adding another tab. That is because the first line tab stops at where the margin ought to have been rather where it is now. Lastly, notice how this is numbered 1.2 and the line just above it is numbered 1. Definitions. Why that is still 1.2 is beyond me and not 1.1 is beyond me. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk Open Source. It's the difference between trust and antitrust.
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