https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158835
--- Comment #5 from ajlittoz <page74010...@yahoo.fr> --- (In reply to Stéphane Guillou (stragu) from comment #4) > Regardless, you are here talking about a case when the selection only > includes the bullet. I can see your method in > https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/direct-formatting-of-list-symbols/99731/7 > requires the user to have a selection of _the next_ bullet/number in order > to change the direct formatting of a bullet/number. > The first thing to do is sort out this oddity of having to select a > different thing to what we want to change, in bug 158879. After thinking about it, it is not that odd. What you select in fact is the paragraph marker. It belongs in the current list item (it is the last "component" of the paragraph). Therefore, "logically", you are still inside the list item you want to change, even if you select something "at the other end". What is confusing (even for somebody versed in Writer subtleties), is teh necessity to select also the next list number (which does not happen when you want to process the last item in a list because the next paragraph is "normal"; it also means you must create an extra paragraph if the list item is the last paragraph in a document) because the list number is a Writer-generated piece, not something explicitly entered by user. And this gives the illusion you select something in the next paragraph. > Anyway, reproduced in recent trunk build: changing the marker's character > style from "Numbering Symbols" to "None" in the sample's 3rd list restores > the green colour. This is where the bug lies. DF precedence over character style is observed for all attributes, except colour. This means you can't play with both character style and DF for spot modification. This breaks the usual behaviour PS < CS < DF. This precedence should be restored for colour and afterwards we'll evaluate to see if this solves the problem without introducing others. I think the request is rather exceptional that most users won't ever be aware of the possibility. So, the selection peculiarity could be left aside it too difficult to improve. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
