Hi Florian,
(I'm answering to this mail rather than to the reply to me since you
have said that the example in your previous post was broken. Not sure if
you meant the post to me, but this one should be correct in any case).
I can follow to what you write in so far that I do understand that
different algorithms lead to different results.
I'm actually wondering whether an algorithm that outputs a number before
evaluating all information that may influence the calculation of that
number can ever output the correct result.
So, I still do not understand what your requirement is? Is it that the
calculation of the number shall be independent of any list style
information? Which actually is the same as to say a list style must not
specify a start value?
Michael
Florian Reuter wrote:
> Hi David,
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>>> The ODF 1.2 numbering should not require a special strategy for an application's counter implementation.
>> Too vague IMHO, or I disagree (details in my previous post).
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> As I said --- its kind of hard to explain :-)
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> Below is what I wrote to Michael Brauer who also wanted clarification regarding my R5. The key to understanding this is ask when are the counters modified and what start-value information do they have at that time.
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> I hope this makes it a little bit clearer. (Sorry that my previous example was broken...).
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> ~Florian
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>>>> David Faure