John Kaufmann wrote:
In a message dated 2009.09.25 04:22 -0500, Bob Estes wrote:
... A paragraph with an embedded list. The first few sentences of the
paragraph describe the list, and then the elements are listed. One
would like to treat this, spatially and conceptually, as a single
paragraph. For such purposes Writer provides the intra-paragraph
line break (Shift+Enter), which breaks the line without invoking the
inter-paragraph spacing. But there is (at least) one problem: It
can't be used with "Justified" paragraph alignment...
... Just use a paragraph break instead of trying to use some type of
line break. Each item of the list is in its own paragraph. Use the
paragraph formating tools to adjust the appearance of each of these
paragraphs. (i.e. justification, space between paragraphs,
automatically generated bullets or numbers, etc.)
The problem with that is that:
(a) The paragraph with an embedded list does not use the same paragraph
spacing as the default for the document; the whole point of using
paragraph styles is to avoid using "the paragraph formating tools to
adjust the appearance of each" paragraph.
(b) If this is not a case for which Writer has the intra-paragraph line
break, then what is?
You could also create a paragraph style with all of the desired
characteristics. You could then apply those characteristics by just
applying the style to those paragraphs.
What is desired is that a paragraph with embedded list look overall like
a paragraphs without embedded list. This means, for example, that
between the list description and list elements there be no
end-of-paragraph spacing, while the last list element should contain the
default end-of-paragraph spacing. To say no more, this is a messy
affront to the concept of paragraph styles: for example, what happens if
you decide to extend the list?
John
You format the relevant paragraphs to have spacing no different from
sentence spacing, ie; no additional spacing before or after. The list
would be comprised of separate paragraphs for each list item as any list
would be and the lack of additional spacing makes it LOOK like one
paragraph. You can then apply any justification rule to the list you
want. I do it all the time and it works well.
--
Gene Y.
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