[libreoffice-users] Paragraph styles for list styles

Hi :slight_smile:
I have cc'd your question to the documentation team for them to consider for the next set of guides.

Which documentation?  Is it in the Guides that appear on these 2 pages?
http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/documentation/
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications
(all the guides that appear in the first link are also in the 2nd but the 2nd has a lot more and includes 3rd party documentation too)

If you mean the help files that you get when you click on "Help" inside the program then you might find the guides tend to be a lot more up-to-date and helpful.
Thanks and regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

These styles make up the set of paragraph styles for ordered and unordered lists that date way back to version 1.x, but which never were really explained much outside of the OOo/LO user guides. Also, the factory-default formatting for these styles is not in general agreement throughout the Ns (worse in OOo than in LO). They appear to be much unlike the human appendix--somewhat useless in its original form but which can be made useful.

I assume that the N was originally meant to refer to the level of nesting of lists, which itself would almost always use indentation. Because their factory-default formatting is somewhat inconsistent, their parameters should be reformatted by the users (or template designers) in order to be made to work better .

Gary

Hi :slight_smile:
Thanks :)  I copied your reply to the users list and cc'd the op.  I guess the op will find the documentation link useful and between us it looks solved. 
Thanks and regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

BTW, the reason I stated that the factory defaults for these paragraph styles were worse in OOo is because many of them (in OOo) cannot be reformatted correctly outside of a very restricted range--i.e, are terribly buggy.

Gary

Also, the typographic rules change across countries. EG: in France, we (should) *never* use "dots" for lists, only dashes. Now, because of inaccurately set software, many a frenchman uses incorrect typography.

Interesting, I never noticed this when working with German companies there are different typographical rules. It does not surprise me.