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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Improving lists
From:       Nash Hoogwater <nrhoogwater () wanadoo ! nl>
Date:       2002-07-15 18:30:05
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On Monday 15 July 2002 19:43, Tomasz Grobelny wrote:
> On pon 15. lipiec 2002 19:01, Nash Hoogwater wrote:
> > Hi Tomasz,
> >
> > Are you planning something like Outline (I think its called) in
> > Open/Staroffice? I.e. multiple levels. This is always something I missed
> > in KWord and I think Thomas also once posted it as a whishlist-item. Mmm,
> > that sounds like a new feature to me, but well it ain't me to decide :-D.
>
> I don't know how it looks in OpenOffice/StarOffice. Kword now has
> multilevel lists, but you cannot custimize how the numbers will look. You
> always have: 1. a) II.
> but you cannot have somethink like:
> this is the (first) item of (3). chapter of part (II)
> or something similar. words in brackets are the numbering words. It is most
> useful in much simpler case. Now you have:
> 1. qaz
> 2. wsx
> 	2. a) qwert
> 	2. b) asdfg
> 3. edc

Mmm, I had to read the Handbook before I found out how to get such multilevel 
lists.

> and after implementing my idea you could do something like:
> 1. qaz
> 2. wsx
> 	a) qwert
> 	b) asdfg
> 3. edc

OK, that's exactly what I want :-)))

> And thats why I thought of implementing it. One problem is that it would be
> hard to set numbering without styles. Users would possibly say that the
> mechanism is unpractical, so it would be nice to force (maybe not
> literally, but strongly encourage) them to use styles (at least) in this
> case. But I don't know how. Another Good Thing would be partial styles.
> Such a style would define a numbering style, but not a font style for
> example. But it's not that important.
>
> Tomek

Sorry, I don't know very much about that part of KWord.

Nash



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