Re: [office] Do you agree, that the list style of a listbelongs to the style markup of a document?

["Florian Reuter" <freuter@novell.com>]

Hi Bruce,

> Why would it make any sense for list styles to behave differently than 
> any other style?

All I say is that in current Office applications and formats they do :-)

I guess you reached the bottom line of this. You can generate two questions:
a) Why would it make any sense for list styles to behave differently than any other style?
b) Why would it make any sense for list styles to behave like any other style?

I guess we both have an understanding why we would say "makes no sense" to a). 

The problem I have is that I am also saying that it wrt. to e.g. interop with other file formats it makes no sense for
ODF to treat list styles like any other style.

So I come to the conclusion that
a) makes no sense (with my desinger hat on)
b) makse no sense (with my interop hat on)

Then you have to make a decision whats more important to your customers: design or interop.

I really appreciate Oliver's/Michael's and Thomas' strong desire for design. But I somehow feel that somebody has to
represent the interop desire of the ODF users too.

I hope you can understand my dilemma.

~Florian

P.S.
Thanks so much for your metadata work!

>>> Bruce D'Arcus <bruce.darcus@OpenDocument.us> 03/14/07 1:15 PM >>>

On Mar 14, 2007, at 4:49 AM, Florian Reuter wrote:

> Althought he only wanted to change the number of the "should not dos" 
> to roman. But since he changed the style he changed both. I agreee 
> with you that this is the excepted behaviour with a paragraph or 
> character style but this is not the expected behaviour in a list.

Why would it make any sense for list styles to behave differently than 
any other style? If the user wants one list to look different than 
another list, they should use different styles.

E.g. in this case they shouldn't change the L1 style to roman. They 
should assign the second list a different style?

Bruce