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

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

--- Comment #3 from zionoto <zionoto at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Dieter Praas from comment #2)
> (In reply to zionoto from comment #0)
> > I'm experimenting with numbered lists in writer and I noticed that every
> > time I create a new list separated from a previous one by other text even
> > chapters away I have to tell writer that it must restart the number from 1.
> > If I don't click on the button to restart the number from 1 writer continues
> > from the previous last value of the previous list. I can't find any
> > AUTOMATIC way to restart the number in a certain style. 
> 
> Context menu => Bullet and Numbering => Number List
> Result: A new numbered list is created
> 
> => RESOLVED NOTABUG


This works but nevertheless the way LibreOffice behaves when applying the style
set as numbered list is weird because it has to create a new list directly
without the need for the user to act as you suggested: simply it isn't logic to
have a continuation of a list after paragraphs of other texts or even separated
by chapters.
A new list chapters away or paragraphs away from the previous one must created
starting from 1. Only when the user needs a continuation (that is a really rare
case) hits the button to continue from the previous list. But such a case
doesn't happen frequently so LO IMHO has to act in the most logical way: it has
to create a new numbered list starting from 1 as default behavior, not as a
continuation of a previous one.

Consequentially, IMHO, this still remains as an abnormal behavior of LO Writer:
maybe it is wanted, maybe it is not a bug, nevertheless it's the wrong way to
go.

So I beg you think again a bit longer about that. IMHO this issue deserves a
more accurate evaluation even about ergonomics, easiness and usability of the
software.

Personally I vote to keep this issue open and not as solved. So I ask to
correct it or at least to add an option to set into the style the desired
behavior so the user can customize it as needed from time to time.

Thank everybody so much for comprehension.

Cheers.

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