You appear to be an advanced user, so I will make this assumption while
answering...
You discuss styles. If you have a document, and a series of steps that
will reproduce the problem, please file a bug report and attache the
document in question that is used for those steps. They really do fix
these problems. There is a learning curve on how to do this, but take a
look here and see how it goes
http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/query.cgi
Enrique Perez-Terron wrote:
On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 23:20 +0200, Enrique Perez-Terron wrote:
I found something. Saving as html, there was a stray <LI> outside any
<UL>..</UL> pair.
In the OOo window (still open) the paragraph has a custom paragraph
style "ehrc-bullet", which in turn refers to the custom list style in
the "Numbering" page. Applying a different style to that paragraph, it
becomes possible to save the document.
1. However, the paragraph shows in the OOo writer window without
any bullet. Yes, now I remember. I created the style with the
intention of applying it to any paragraph that need a bullet in
front of it. I have tried to apply specific styles to all
paragraphs in the document, and do all formatting through
"Modify..." in the context menu on the style in the Styles and
Formatting window. All my paragraphs have custom styles. I
created them by first formatting a paragraph manually, then
selecting a word in the paragraph, then dragging the selection
to the "Paragraph styles" selector at the top of the "Styles and
Formatting" window. The paragraph used to create "ehrc-bullet"
*had* a bullet.
However, when I applied the ehcr-bullet style to the first paragraph in
what I thought should become another list, no bullet appeared. (I had
already written a couple of list items as ordinary paragraphs, and
wanted to convert them to a list.) I created a custom list style and
linked to it in the "Numbering" tab of the paragraph style, in the
"Numbering Style" field. Yet no bullet.
Now I know that some kind of "bullets on" got set internally, since a) I
get this error when saving, and b) there is <LI> when I save as HTML.
(I have to say I find the help in the application lacking, because it
never explains the *architecture* of the system of styles. E.g, if I
apply a list style, will that remove the paragraph style?
No, applying a list style will not change the paragraph style.
I can set many things in a paragraph style, including character
formatting, and list styles. I can then manually change formatting, or
apply other styles on top of the paragraph style without affecting the
paragraph style. I can also select text and choose to set it back to
default formatting...
In other
words, is a "list style" just another paragraph style that happens to
have the bullet and numbering properties set?
I can set a list style inside a paragraph style, but that is different
than applying a list style manually. I have never bothered to do that,
but I understand why you would want to. I create paragraph styles,
character styles, frame styles, numbering styles, etc.... I then apply
them individually. Why?
1. I create a table of contents using paragraph styles.
2. I have reasons for wanting to use their standard outline styles
(heading 1, heading 2, etc...), but wanting to set my own numbering so
that I have sections such as
1. hello
1.1 hello sub thingy
1.2 another sub thing...
.
.
.
2. Hello again
.
.
.
Appendix A. Explaining hello
I do this by manually applying a _chapters numbering style for regular
chapters, and _appendix to the appendix headings. Works great.
I did find something
about this at openoffice.org. Why has nothing of the stuff on the wiki
pages been incorporated in the help? Even the wiki was just a
beginning, and I now have problems finding back to it... Perhaps users
on this list (myself included) can team up to help here. If we try to
generalize from our experiences, and others point out counterexamples,
we should arrive at a description that works. Or, does this already
exist?
Start here:
http://documentation.openoffice.org/
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