Hello, On Sun, 2011-04-17 at 09:54 +1000, Troy Rollo wrote: > 1. The rule has operated for a long time now without, as far as I can see, > any > serious complaints about it.
Yeah, but it would great to fix it once for good and avoid having tiny patches again and again on the same thing. > 2. Using the same rule as Microsoft Word will create fewer problems for > document interchange with Microsoft Word. We don't have to copy Word's mistakes ;) > I guess it depends on how important it is to keep document consistency high > in > interchange with Word. If that is not important I can prepare a more > complete > set of rules, submit the rules for approval, and then implement a new patch. > My initial thought was that the correct (clean slate) rule would be: > > 1. Strip any leading white space (but not trailing - although rule 2 might > get > that); > 2. If there is formatting content after the number, and not before the > number, > strip it if either: > (a) This is the last component in the reference; or > (b) The next component has formatting content before the number. > > However I would note that one of the default outline numbering formats (the > "1." "(a)" format) in LibreOffice includes white space in front of the number > at the first list level. Thus this rule would strip the white space, where on > my testing MS Word would not. This would create a common inconsistency when > going from LibreOffice to MS word. You can first implement this rule and we'll see what people think about that. That rule sounds reasonable to me. Regards, -- Cédric Bosdonnat LibreOffice hacker http://documentfoundation.org OOo Eclipse Integration developer http://cedric.bosdonnat.free.fr _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
