Thanks for the report octalman, and sorry this wasn't given attention earlier.
Can you please confirm whether you're still seeing the problem with the latest version of libreoffice in Ubuntu? If so, would you mind filing a bug against the upstream project, at https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=LibreOffice&format=guided ? Many thanks in advance, and sorry again for the lack of feedback. ** Changed in: libreoffice (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to libreoffice in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1506696 Title: Bullets and numbering ignores paragraph formatting Status in libreoffice package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: After years of fighting OO Writer's bullets and numbering, I have finally discovered at least part of the problem. It appears to consist of two parts. 1. There is no "No, I don't want bullets and numbering" for a selected paragraph. Both the formatting drop-down/paragraph and the bullent-and-numbering drop-down should both have this option, explicitly. More specifically, 2. Bullets and numbering is ultra aggressive. Under some conditions, even when bullets and numbering is turned off for a paragraph, O-O tries to implement numbering anyway. Worse, when this happens, not only the current paragraph is infected, but one or more subsequent paragraphs will also be affected, and the problem cannot be fixed. Bullets and numbering energizes itself, even if the paragraph does not have bullets and numbering enabled, when one or more of the following occur: ...... A paragraph begins with a capital letter immediately followed by a period ...... A paragraph begins with certain capital letters (C, but apparently others as well) ...... The first character of the paragraph is a numeral followed by a period This issue with respect to the second item above can be overcome by enclosing the offending letter and some following text in double quotes (U S style, "). I don't know whether this works for numerals, however, or if only the first letter is so enclosed. Under these circumstances, it is impossible to disable bullets and numbering. When this aggressive behaviour occurs, it also causes indentation specifications to be ignored and attempts to correct formatting causes indentation specifications to be altered or eliminated. By bullets and numbering enabling, I mean that "include this paragraph" and/or "start numbering" is checked. I am using Open Office 4.2 in the current release of Ubuntu 14.04, presumably up to date, on an Pavilion laptop with AMD A8 processor. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/1506696/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
