Re: [office] list-override proposal

[David Faure <faure@kde.org>]

On Monday 12 March 2007, Florian Reuter wrote:
> 1. Backward compatibility.
I don't think backward compatibility matters -that- much for numbered-paragraph that we can't change any behavior.
Numbered-paragraph was added at koffice's request, and was never implemented in OOo, and it turns out
that it was under-specified. So I don't see the point in trying to clarify a vague specification in a way that preserves
a theoretical backwards compatibility with implementations that can't possibly exist.
We should rather clarify it in a way that actually makes sense and is useable by implementations.

And if that means adding list-id, then let's add list-id, and let's not care about the non-existant problem
of backward compatibility. Implementations that actually use numbered-paragraph already (like koffice)
can take care of it at the application level (using the old algorithms if no list-id is used, and respecting
list-id if set).

-- 
David Faure, faure@kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).