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Subject: Re: [office] renewed proposal for new position and space attributesfor the list level
Thomas Zander wrote: > 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. This is correct assumption - a paragraph style isn't needed to define the layout of a list. Please refer to the ODF specification part, where it is said that a list style has to be coupled with 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. I didn't say something about specifying more than one list with one list style. I'm talking about specifying with one list style the list level styles of the first 10 list levels. > > 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 strongly - very very strongly - disagree. > > 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. About what inconsistencies in OpenOffice.org you're talking about? I didn't know any. > > What about making using the existing behavior of style-inheritance to > alleviate your concerns? What kind of style inheritance you want to introduce for list styles? Regards, Oliver.
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