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Writer Numbering Behavior
The Writer numbering is a complex behavior to handle chapter numbering (aka outline numbering), numbered lists and the very related bullet lists. This article is intended to document the development work done in this area starting with OOo 1.0.0 towards the most current OOo release. Detailed information is given in the linked specifications.
Feedback and ideas are welcome!
Change History
OpenOffice.org 2.x/3.0
An outline level attribute for paragraph and paragraph styles will be introduced to improve the usability of the handling with headings and the export and import capabilities. Specification can be found here [1].
It is planned to introduce with feature in OpenOffice.org 2.4 or 3.0
OpenOffice.org 2.0.2
This release implements a overworked numbering core.
OpenOffice.org 2.0.1
This first update to OOo 2.0.0 fixed some issues of the OOo 2.0.0 release:
http://specs.openoffice.org/writer/numbering/NumberingBullet1_PP1.sxw
OpenOffice.org 2.0.0
On the way to the mayor release of OOo 2.0.0 there were more and more numbering issues which could not be addressed with the numbering core of OOo 1.0.0 ++. Therefore the numbering core and GUI implementation got reworked in general for the OOo 2.0.0 release:
http://specs.openoffice.org/writer/numbering/NumberingBullet1.sxw
Due to time and resource limitations not all planned changes to UI and core got implemented. The issues which did not made it into the OOo 2.0.0 release got shifted into the numbering 2 specification for future releases:
http://specs.openoffice.org/writer/numbering/NumberingBullet2.sxw
OpenOffice.org 1.0.0
This was the given behavior of Writer numbering, when OOo got open sourced. This behavior stayed nearly untouched towards to OOo 2.0.0.
List of known issue in Writer numbering and outline
Status of the following list of known issues:
2007-10-18: initial list of issues known by Oliver-Rainer Wittmann (od@openoffice.org) --Od 16:29, 18 October 2007 (CEST)
Id |
Summary |
Type |
Target |
Prio |
Notes |
i62675 |
Numbered chapter styles behave erratically; hard numbers should turn to outlines when assigning heading style |
DEFECT |
OOo 2.4 |
P3 |
apply of outline paragraph style |
i54707 |
Outline Style on Numbered Paragraph Removes Hard Numbering Attribute |
DEFECT |
OOo 2.x |
P3 |
|
i56201 |
Also adapt new default bullet for list created by AutoFormat |
DEFECT |
OOo 2.x |
P3 |
usability: bullets AutoFormat |
i56630 |
Unassigned outline attribute "Show Sublevel" is set to "1" when saved |
DEFECT |
OOo 2.x |
P3 |
usability: save-load |
i56851 |
Undo on changing hard format of numering label does not work |
DEFECT |
OOo 2.x |
P3 |
undo |
i57352 |
Continuing of Numbering does not work when multi selection is processed |
DEFECT |
OOo 2.x |
P3 |
editing: numbering on/off of multi-selection of paragraphs |
i57499 |
Fourth (custom) Outline level not set in SW5 document |
DEFECT |
OOo 2.x |
P3 |
import: outline |
i57500 |
Outline numbers from SW5 cannot be highlighted |
DEFECT |
OOo 2.x |
P3 |
import: outline |
i58447 |
Copy & paste of numbering into a numbering continuous source numbering |
DEFECT |
OOo 2.x |
P3 |
usability: copy-and-paste of numbered paragraphs |
i59088 |
WW8: sometime outline numbers not displayed though styles correctly assigned to levels |
DEFECT |
OOo 2.x |
P3 |
import: outline |
i59342 |
TOC from SW5 document sometimes not possible to update |
DEFECT |
OOo 2.x |
P3 |
TOC StarOffice 5.x binary file format |
i59343 |
Chapter field in SW5 document does not have content |
DEFECT |
OOo 2.x |
P3 |
chapter field sdw |
i59346 |
unused outline settings from SW5 document not imported |
DEFECT |
OOo 2.x |
P3 |
import: outline |
i59363 |
Heading 2 as follow of Heading 1 will produce wrong outline numbers |
DEFECT |
OOo 2.x |
P3 |
outline style as follow of another outline style |
i59383 |
Outline from SW5 documentsometimes initially numbered wrong in second level |
DEFECT |
OOo 2.x |
P3 |
import: outline |
i61776 |
Bullets in outline numbering disappear after reopening the file |
DEFECT |
OOo 2.x |
P3 |
outline + bullets, also import |
i61977 |
List style from paragraph style not assigned in text anymore in OO2.0.0 document |
DEFECT |
OOo 2.x |
P3 |
xml import |
i62471 |
ASSERT: <InsAttr(..)> - PaM in front of label, but text node has no numbering rule set |
DEFECT |
OOo 2.x |
P3 |
<in front of label> defect |
i62635 |
undo does not restore numbering level after pasting into different level |
DEFECT |
OOo 2.x |
P3 |
editing: undo |
i62750 |
Nested bullet lists imported incorrectly from HTML |
DEFECT |
OOo 2.x |
P3 |
html import |
i63356 |
WW8: missing indentation after bullets |
DEFECT |
OOo 2.x |
P3 |
WW8, numbering |
i64663 |
In outline paragraph "spacing to text" not correctly saved in first paragraph |
DEFECT |
OOo 2.x |
P3 |
save of outline paragraph + indent |
i64713 |
Outline dialog overwrites indents of Heading style |
DEFECT |
OOo 2.x |
P3 |
outline numbering dialog |
i64881 |
controlling numbering indent with mouse not possible |
DEFECT |
OOo 2.x |
P3 |
|
i65055 |
Keep small bullets as default in old documents (like sxw) |
DEFECT |
OOo 2.x |
P3 |
default bullets |
i65787 |
Can't use name "Outline" for list style |
DEFECT |
OOo 2.x |
P3 |
outline |
i66122 |
WW8: numbered paragraph is displayed in wrong level and "start with" number |
DEFECT |
OOo 2.x |
P3 |
WW8, numbering |
i66153 |
Wrong text formatting |
DEFECT |
OOo 2.x |
P3 |
WW8, indent |
i66405 |
Heading 2 paragraph of HTML document in second level after reopen |
DEFECT |
OOo 2.x |
P3 |
outline, html |
i67772 |
Large table with bullets very slow creating new bullets |
DEFECT |
OOo 2.x |
P3 |
performance continuous numbering |
i68704 |
WW8: Space numbering in Outline Numbering is not retained |
DEFECT |
OOo 2.x |
P3 |
WW8 export - compatibility |
i68709 |
Moving numbering inents via mouse does not work as specified |
DEFECT |
OOo 2.x |
P3 |
usability |
i68711 |
Hard format for number label changes character style |
DEFECT |
OOo 2.x |
P3 |
format numbering label |
i68714 |
Backspace does not work correctly when numbered para has indents |
DEFECT |
OOo 2.x |
P3 |
editing: backspace |
i68833 |
bullet lists: changing indents instead of demotion in bugdoc |
DEFECT |
OOo 2.x |
P3 |
editing - tab |
i68955 |
"Default formatting" might move paragraph back to first level in bullet list |
DEFECT |
OOo 2.x |
P3 |
|
i69507 |
Copy/paste of numbered paragraphs into other numbering is not intuitive |
DEFECT |
OOo 2.x |
P3 |
|
i69561 |
heading paragraph <text:h> not numbered, if paragraph style provides list style |
DEFECT |
OOo 2.x |
P3 |
|
i69644 |
Placing cursor sometimes erroneously gives dragging guides for (numbering) indents |
DEFECT |
OOo 2.x |
P3 |
usability - indenting |
i77708 |
Tools.Outline settings lost on Save |
DEFECT |
OOo 2.x |
P2 |
outline, export/import |
i77990 |
Autoindent of numbering is wrong when one blank is used |
DEFECT |
OOo 2.x |
P3 |
|
i78935 |
Outline numbering do not work after bullet lists when copy-pasting html data |
DEFECT |
OOo 2.x |
P3 |
|
i79370 |
Paragraph style setting in Outline Numbering window not saved at first try |
DEFECT |
OOo 2.x |
P3 |
outline |
i81431 |
WW8: hard formatted indent of heading not regarded on import |
DEFECT |
OOo 2.x |
P3 |
|
i58398 |
Default bullet list symbols have to be overworked |
DEFECT |
OOo 3.0 |
P3 |
|
i58729 |
No automatic bullet size in Writer |
DEFECT |
OOo 3.0 |
P3 |
|
i63395 |
Change default bullet characters, font and size |
DEFECT |
OOo 3.0 |
P2 |
|
i26315 |
Numbering style can't be deleted when used by paragraph |
DEFECT |
OOo Later |
P4 |
|
i34674 |
Show Space Between Chapter Numbering and Heading Text (in navigator) |
DEFECT |
OOo Later |
P3 |
|
i50680 |
Bullets on/off formatting issue when paragraph starts with spaces |
DEFECT |
OOo Later |
P3 |
|
i54409 |
Table of contents numbering is distorted |
DEFECT |
OOo Later |
P3 |
import: outline |
i56053 |
WW8: Outline numbering wrong in second level when first level not linked to style |
DEFECT |
OOo Later |
P3 |
import: outline |
i57052 |
Num label highlighting not refreshed on Undo of demoting |
DEFECT |
OOo Later |
P3 |
usability: in front of label defect on undo |
i57909 |
Outline in certain .sdw not shown in Navigator |
DEFECT |
OOo Later |
P3 |
import: outline |
i59002 |
Paragraph style assignment in outline dialog gets corrupted |
DEFECT |
OOo Later |
P3 |
outline numbering dialog |
i59891 |
Numbering/Bullets mode in Right to Left direction indents BOTH sides of text |
DEFECT |
OOo Later |
P3 |
formatting: R2L problem |
i61576 |
ux-ctest: Manual bullet lists created with special characters are not beeing recognized by AutoCorrection |
DEFECT |
OOo Later |
P3 |
|
i61654 |
ux-ctest: Promoting/Demoting function for bullets and numberings is not found by users |
DEFECT |
OOo Later |
P2 |
|
i62123 |
Outline paragraphs does not behave intuitively when assigning bullets |
DEFECT |
OOo Later |
P2 |
|
i68231 |
Deleting numbered paragraph will also delete preceeding table |
DEFECT |
OOo Later |
P3 |
editing: delete of numbered paragraph |
i69853 |
Auto-indenting from numbered list will not intuitively go away |
DEFECT |
OOo Later |
P3 |
|
i70113 |
Numbering toolbar not shown when numbering type is "None" |
DEFECT |
OOo Later |
P3 |
|
i78524 |
Auto-capitalisation of letter "i" hinders Automatic numbering (New entry in Engl. AutoCorr list) |
DEFECT |
OOo Later |
P3 |
|
i41923 |
RFE: PDF Export of multiple outline numberings |
ENHANCEMENT |
OOo 2.x |
P3 |
|
i69694 |
Tab does not change Outline level for first paragraph in document |
ENHANCEMENT |
OOo 2.x |
P3 |
|
i69459 |
lists don't get assigned a default style |
ENHANCEMENT |
OOo 3.0 |
P3 |
|
i2448 |
Use spaces with bullet points |
ENHANCEMENT |
OOo Later |
P3 |
|
i42138 |
RFE- Show 3 to 4 recently used samples in Bullets and Numbering > Option > Numbering list |
ENHANCEMENT |
OOo Later |
P3 |
|
i42280 |
Numbering and List paragraph styles should have numbering style by default |
ENHANCEMENT |
OOo Later |
P4 |
|
i43981 |
control over numbering-field shading |
ENHANCEMENT |
OOo Later |
P3 |
|
i45592 |
too complex newline editing near numbering/bullet lists. |
ENHANCEMENT |
OOo Later |
P3 |
|
i46184 |
Customize Bullets and Numbering |
ENHANCEMENT |
OOo Later |
P3 |
|
i57314 |
Automatic Outline Numbering should be easily removable |
ENHANCEMENT |
OOo Later |
P3 |
|
i59213 |
bullet and numbering buttons are not shown pressed |
ENHANCEMENT |
OOo Later |
P3 |
|
i59461 |
no space between outline numbering number and heading in scrollbar tooltip |
ENHANCEMENT |
OOo Later |
P3 |
|
i60263 |
Use same bullet font for SO |
ENHANCEMENT |
OOo Later |
P3 |
|
i65001 |
Tab Key should demote group of selected bullets correctly |
ENHANCEMENT |
OOo Later |
P3 |
|
i67588 |
WW8: Word outline numbering names change |
ENHANCEMENT |
OOo Later |
P3 |
|
i68078 |
Restart of numbering should not be mandatory after a preceding higher paragraph level |
ENHANCEMENT |
OOo Later |
P3 |
|
i80001 |
Numbered lists (you get 1. 2. 3. by default) should respect last used num format |
ENHANCEMENT |
OOo Later |
P3 |
|