Writer/NumberingEnhancementforMSInteroperability

Feature Scope

The enhancement contains:

Support the new ODF attribute "List Level" for paragraph styles

Loading and saving List Level attribute of paragraph style.

UI support of List Level attribute setting.

New numbering calculating rule.

MS doc style mapping, and numbering mapping, filter updating.

Inherited outline level attribute

Child paragraph's Headline styles can associate outline numbering style and be regard as TOC collect-able styles.

Numbering in the writer

Numbering or Bullet is a special character appeared at the front of a paragraph. In writer, the key concept of Numbering/Bullet is the numbering rule. Numbering rule is a numbering calculating rule. Numbering rule defines a serious of attributes for formatting Numbering/Bullet character. These attributes are: Type(Bullet, Picture Bullet and Numbering), Level(Level 1 – Level 10, a number rule have 10 levels), Style, Size, Color, Font, Space, etc.

There are two types of numbering rules in writer, one is Outline Numbering Rule , the other is Normal Numbering Rule.

There are only one Outline Numbering Rule, lots of Normal Numbering Rules in one document. Generally, a Normal Numbering Rule is applied to a paragraph when "Bullets and Numbering" is used to format a paragraph.

There are three ways to use numbering to format a paragraph.

1) Outline Number Rule can be configured through "Outline Numbering" dialog. User can configure a serious of options for each outline level through Outline Numbering dialog, a predefined paragraph style, such as "heading 1", can be bound to an outline level, then when user uses this paragraph style to format a paragraph, the Outline Number Rule is applied to this paragraph automatically.

2) "Style and Formatting" dialog lists all writer's predefined numbering rules, user can apply those list style directly to a paragraph, the list styles in this dialog are Normal Numbering Rules.

3) "Bullets and Numbering" dialog, user can use this dialog to create a customized numbering rule then apply it to a paragraph. The name of the applied customized numbering rules can not be controlled by the user.