[Bug 159533] Add custom separators to all field variables

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159533

--- Comment #4 from William Friedman <will.friedman at gmail.com> ---
The use case, as I said, is to try to implement in-line lists. I admit it's a
kludge, but until the normal list function allows for in-line lists, the only
way to create an in-line list is to use variables.

I'm not sure what's unclear about the use case. They are the same use cases as
ordinary lists. Here's an example of how one might use this:

Issue X is discussed in [*3*] sources: *1*) A, *2*) B, *3*) C. According to
source [*1*], blah; according to source [*2*], blah blah. According to source
[*3*], however, ...

In this example, *1*, *2*, and *3* are the field variables. The content of the
square brackets are references to those variables. The first one refers to the
largest numbered variable, and the next three refer to the individual variables
of the list.

What I'm asking for, specifically, is the ability to customize the separator
surrounding each of those variables -- the close parenthesis in this example --
just like I can customize the separator after ordinary list numbers in Bullets
and Numbering | Customize | Separator. Again, this wouldn't be necessary if
Lists & Numbering supported in-line lists, but it doesn't. This also wouldn't
be necessary if one could search and replace field variables, but that also
isn't a possibility.

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