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Re: [office] Propsal: numbered paragraphs/headings without number

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    Posted 09-03-2004 10:27
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    Subject: Re: [office] Propsal: numbered paragraphs/headings without number


    Hi David,
    
    David Faure wrote:
    > Hello Michael,
    > 
    > On Friday 03 September 2004 10:31, Michael Brauer wrote:
    > 
    >>What we have overseen for both situations is that some office 
    >>applications have a feature where a paragraph or heading actually has a 
    >>list style assigned but gets no number. Such paragraphs and headings are 
    >>formatted like being in a list, that is, they get the margins and text 
    >>indent specified in the list style, but no number is displayed in front 
    >>of it, and the number counter associated with a list style is not 
    >>increased.
    >>
    >>For paragraphs contained in a list <(text:list> element, section 4.3), 
    >>this situation is covered by the <text:list-header> element (section 
    >>4.3.3). For paragraphs repesented by a <text:numbered-paragraph> element 
    >>and headings, no solution exists so far. For this reason, I Would like 
    >>to propose to add a "text:is-numbered" attribute to both, the 
    >><text:numbered-paragarph> and the <text:h> element, that specifies 
    >>whether the paragarph or heading gets a number. The attribute gets a 
    >>boolean value.
    > 
    > 
    >>The default value is "true".
    > 
    > Is it? Not all paragraphs and headers are numbered... 
    > That's what's potentially confusing here - the attribute alone doesn't say whether
    > the paragraph is numbered, this also comes from the list style.
    > The attribute really means "is-not-numbered-although-the-list-style-says-it-should-be" :)
    
    You are right. Or isn't it even 
    "is-not-numbered-although-the-list-style-says-it-should-be-and-although-it-is-displayed-like- 
    beeing-in-a-list" :)
    > 
    > If we want to keep the semantic of "list header" then maybe it should be named
    > "text:is-list-header" (default value "false" of course). It's less obvious from the name
    > what it means visually, but it's more consistent with <text:list-header>.
    
    I agree. This attribute name reflects much better the meaning of the 
    attribute. My first thought was that the term "list-header" might be 
    confusing if we are not in a list, but since we reference "list-styles" 
    by "list-style-name" attribute if we are not in a list, too, that's 
    probably not the case.
    
    > 
    > Just some thoughts, no real objection.
    > 
    Michael
    
    


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