[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 128282] restart manually numbering of numbered lists

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128282

--- Comment #12 from zionoto <zionoto at gmail.com> ---
I think that the most logical default behavior of this is as follow:

1. paragraph with number
2. paragraph with number
3. paragraph with number
normal paragraph
1. paragraph with number
2. paragraph with number
3. paragraph with number

in other words when I apply a style with numbers in it, LO must start from 1 as
happens in HTML ordered lists when I create a new list. All the style
formatting is applied as well but it restarts from one. Example in HTML:

<ol class="mylist">
        <li>paragraph with number</li>
        <li>paragraph with number</li>
        <li>paragraph with number</li>
</ol>

<p>normal paragraph</p>

<ol class="mylist">
        <li>paragraph with number</li>
        <li>paragraph with number</li>
        <li>paragraph with number</li>
</ol>

Why?
Most of the time when a user creates new lists some paragraph or even some
chapters after the last numbered list, (s)he wants a list that starts from 1
not from 5 or 10 or else.

I have to say that even MS Word does it the wrong way as LO does (just tried v.
2010 and I remember 2003 had the same IMHO wrong behavior). The HTML example
above in fact is IMHO the most logical way ordered lists have to behave by
default. 

And I hope LO (and Word) will follow HTML model as well.

Sometimes when I edit complex documents in MS Word I also get mad because when
I update the style in certain situations MS Word renumbers all instances of the
numbered lists that are separated and must start from 1 but it make them to
continue so I have to go manually and hit Restart at 1 more and more and more
times... Sorry but this is really UGLY! And this is also a motivation to make
it work as HTML does that doesn't have any problem: a new list is really a NEW
list.

IMHO it largely preferable that when the numbered list style is applied
restarts by default and IF the user needs to continue from the previous
numbering (s)he clicks Continue numbering from right click menu or toolbar or
else, but this happens so rarely, even in complex documents.

So I hope LO and MSWord (and others) will follow the same HTML model that is
intuitively the most logical.

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