[office] Suggestion for bullet numbering

[David Faure <faure@kde.org>]

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The OO file format defines a bullet by the unicode char for it.

This assumes that a font is available for displaying that character .... and
it assumes that other Word Processors _do_ use text to display bullets,
which might not be the case. For instance KWord knows about a set of 
common bullets, in addition to the "character A from font F" solution:
- - Circle bullet (empty circle)
- - Square bullet (full square)
- - Disc bullet (full circle)
- - Box bullet (empty square)
(I guess some other common bullets could also be added, like the 
triangle-pointing-to-the-right that OO and Word have, etc.)

To cater for both cases of implementations, could we add such a list of
common bullets to the file format? It wouldn't be difficult to fix OO for it, I think,
it would simple have to save both the "name" of the bullet from that list, 
as well as the unicode char for it.

If you look at OOWriter's "Bullets" tab, it only has 8 bullets that it offers
to the user, anyway - so it can know which one was selected, with more details
than just the unicode char. Merging OO's bullets with KWord's, I guess this would lead
to the above list of "common bullets":

- - circle
- - square
- - disc
- - box
- - diamond
- - right-pointing arrow 
- - right-pointing triangle
- - cross mark
- - check mark
- - dot (or "very small circle", see OO's first choice)
- - and of course the "custom" (defined by a unicode character) choice.

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