Re: [office] renewed proposal for new position and space attributes for the list level

[Thomas Zander <zander@kde.org>]

On Monday 05 March 2007 12:08, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann - Software Engineer - 
Sun Microsystems wrote:
> Do you know understand my intention, why I want to have the possibility
> to specify the indent attributes at the list level definitions of a list
> style?

I understand. I just don't agree with it.
Its based on the incorrect assumption that the layout of a list should be 
decoupled from a paragraph style.
Its also based on the incorrect assumption that a list-style should describe 
more then one list.  There is no need, and from a users perspective I've 
found that it doesn't make a whole lot of sense either.

And I think you just proved my point; a liststyle with a random number of 
list-levels being defined (you have to admit 10 is a pretty randomly chosen 
number) brings a lot of inconsistencies.

I have no problem with OOo working with that combination of list-levels, but I 
believe that if you have a problem with the inconsistency that this gives you 
should fix it in OOo, not in ODF.  The inconsistency here is that while 
list-styles can hold 10 levels, paragraph-styles can't.

What about making using the existing behavior of style-inheritance to 
alleviate your concerns?
-- 
Thomas Zander

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