I am reposting a previous message, because, after 3 days the original message could not be delivered to the mailing list server. At this time (several other messages have been posted on the same thread), it does not add much to help Alan, except to support him, emphasizing that the way OOo handles list numbering is rather poor.
And yes, I have read several OOo docs on styling and numbering, but I find them rather simple (naive?) and not helping much if you want to do something slightly less straightforward. And I also find, here and everywhere, that if a user has a lot of trouble and has to do a lot of reading in order to use a simple feature of a program, than, probably, the program or feature is not well implemented. José Dizia Alan Chandler em Segunda 21 Novembro 2005 21:33: (...) > 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. (...) I also think there is an implementation problem of automatic numbering in OOo :-(:-( . Your experience (and the example you described) show that quite clearly: besides the incorrectness of the numbering, the indentation conflicts are extremely annoying and difficult to resolve. (I have also published some examples/demonstrations of problems similar to the one you described, when my discussion thread was active.) But I also think there is a design flaw: there will always be problems upon applying an independent numbering "styling" over a paragraph "styling", which has its own indentations (which get interfered beyond repair). It would be much easier, I think, to include numbering styling _inside_ paragraph styling (a field amongst others, like text flow or something). This already happens on a paragraph field that links to a numbering style; unfortunately, the numbering styles are _independent_ and, as implemented, severely interfere with paragraph indentation. :-(:-( (The situation is different for character and paragraph styling; upon applying a character style on a letter inside a paragraph, the only thing that is changed is the style of that specific letter; nothing else is changed. In the case of automatic numbering, the same could perhaps be done _if_ the numbering style would _not_ include indentation formatting, thereby not colliding with paragraph indentation formatting!) José -- J. Magalhães Cruz --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- ... free, as in freedom... (Richard Stallman) ... private, as in personal... (jmcruz) ... respect, to all animals... (jmcruz) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
