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Subject: Re: [office] proposal for new position and space attributes for the list level
On Wednesday 14 February 2007 14:04, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann - Software engineer - Sun Microsystems Inc wrote: > > Thanks for your long email and explanation. > > I'm unconvinced of the benefits, and I think the MS compatibility is a > > red herring for lists based on the simple premise that these extentions > > create a far to complex solution that no user actually will understand > > and thus we won't end up with something better. > > In my opinion, the new attributes are as complex as the existing ones. > I think the new attributes have the advantage, that the user doesn't > have to take care about the paragraph indent attributes, when the user > maps his/her imagination of position and space of the list label and > the list item to the provided attributes of OpenDocument. That's one way of looking at it :) Having 2 ways of altering the indent (the paragraph and the list ones), typically in one style-dialog is another. I feel that having 2 (visually) similar properties that interact seem like a bad idea. And on top of that I'm unconvinced of the actual user need for these properties. -- Thomas Zander
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