Jambunathan K <kjambunat...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> For example, I don't know if the docbook backend explicitly > >> writes section numbers in, or if the sectioning is left to the > >> stylesheet. If the latter, can I mark sections as ones that > >> should be numbered and ones that shouldn't? > >> > > > > And I'm sure Jambunathan will take care of the odt exporter. > > I think from odt side of things users are very likely to turn off > numbering and toc altogether and be more than happy to give finishing > touches with automatic outline numbering facility and automatic toc > generation facility offered by the viewers. > > Currently the TOC and section-numbering generated by the odt exporter is > artificial. i.e., It looks like section numbers and TOC but the > underlying xml elements are not spitted out by the odt exporter. > > Considering that the odt exporter is new I believe there is some > flexibility on my side to reject certain features as too niche for a > first level release :-). >
Of course: if somebody needs the functionality, they implement it and submit it - that's open source in a nutshell. OTOH, it is important to document such limitations, so that innocent users don't end up spending hours trying to do something that cannot be done. Nick
