The expected solution is a paragraph style specifically for the list
items. In fact, I worked with one publisher that used three list styles.
They were something like _list_first_row, _list_last_row, _list_inner_rows
The reasoning is that you may desire extra space before or after the
list, but not inside the list.
So Barbara, your solution strikes me as the preferred solution for OOo.
On 09/25/2009 09:13 PM, Barbara Tobias wrote:
It may not be the most elegant way to do it, but it works for me to go
ahead and compose the list and its surrounding paragraphs with paragraph
breaks at the end of each list item. After starting the next paragraph,
go back and select the list items *only* and apply a style that has the
amount of space you want between list items (as opposed to the amount of
space you want between other paragraphs). This can be a modification of
the style you used for the rest of the piece you are writing.
Then, if you need to add another item to the list (or add an item in the
middle), it will pick up the spacing for the list items instead of your
standard for other paragraph breaks.
Barbara
John wrote:
So then, the paragraph /following/ the paragraph with embedded list
requires special treatment? Why should /that/ paragraph be so
burdened,
and - again - what happens if we then edit the document to put
another
paragraph after the paragraph with embedded list? Haven't we
just
spread the problem? Isn't the advantage of object orientation
supposed
to be the encapsulation of formatting issues, precisely to avoid
this
sort of tinkering?
John
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