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

[David Faure <faure@kde.org>]

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" :)

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>.

Just some thoughts, no real objection.

-- 
David Faure, faure@kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).