Re: [office] Critical problem

[Bruce D'Arcus <bruce.darcus@OpenDocument.us>]

I really don't have the time to get drawn into this, and I'm not a list 
person, but ...

On Mar 13, 2007, at 6:42 AM, David Faure wrote:

> Personally I don't have enough experience with <list> to be able to 
> answer that.
> You do, so you probably know the answer: if you know for sure that 
> there is no way
> to model this with <list>, then please say so, and I will simply 
> conclude that:
> * OK, we have two different ways to model lists in OpenDocument
> * the numbered-paragraph way is more flexible - and this is why we 
> need it.
> (And personally I could do with that way only, i.e. without <list>).

... it seems to me this makes sense, and that if there's a problem 
mapping between the two:

a) perhaps then text:list is the problem
b) in any case, am not sure we have some formal (or even practical?) 
requirement that we must be able to map between the two?

Superficially, I prefer the list-id approach because it involves 
identifying a conceptual object of sorts, rather than just using some 
essentially presentational attributes (continue-numbering).

BTW, re: LaTeX, the thing there is that lists can span across other 
structures (sections and paragraphs).

\begin{enumerate}
\item one
\item two

\section{Foo}

\end{enumerate}

Bruce