[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 141452] Rename Tools > Chapter Numbering back to Outline Numbering

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141452

--- Comment #21 from Mike Kaganski <mikekaganski at hotmail.com> ---
(In reply to Regina Henschel from comment #1)
> I think "Chapter" is the only way to make in unambiguous.

Heh, if only it were true...

I strongly believe this proposal should be done, and tdf#104151 was badly
misguided.

We have multiple confusion here.

Outline is the concept that should be used when the structure (including
chapters and sections, and applied by the levels in paragraphs) is meant. It
also must be used in Navigator instead of the "Headings".

Chapter is only used when first outline level is used (as in ToC's Create Index
or Table of Contents For - note how the Chapter used there is *different* in
the meaning from what tdf#104151 assigned it to).

Heading should be used very carefully - to refer to paragraphs having outline
level applied; and also to refer to Heading N paragraph style - but these two
uses must be disambiguated in writing.

We have currently just a mess, with more proposals coming to make it worse -
see the use of "heading" term in comments in tdf#148673, caused by complete
lack of distinction between these related, but different concepts.

See also tdf#138748, also dealing with a similar problem - the misuse of
related but different terms, leading to real user confusion (e.g., tdf#137175).

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