[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 134781] Redundancy in Table of Contents and Indexes

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134781

--- Comment #2 from ajlittoz <page74010-sf at yahoo.fr> ---
@Heiko Tietze: I think there is a misunderstanding about this bug report.

It is not a matter of customising the ToC or not (I know how to do that and it
works like a charm).

The Type tab of the ToC dialog offers two overlapping ways of constructing a
table of figures (or other objects captioned with a number range), namely:
- type "Table of Figures"
- type "Index of Tables"

Though the result is strictly the same (as long as you don't request
hyperlinks), it is confusing to access the (nearly) same functionality through
two menu items of the same menu.

It may be that "Table of Figures" resulted from the addition of hyperlinks
which where not allowed in this type of table in previous (how old?) versions.

To add to the confusion,

- "Table of Figures" implies that entries are ordered in document order (like a
ToC),
- while "Index of Tables" implicitly suggests according to word "Index" that
entries are ordered alphabetically, which they are not.

"Index of Tables" offers the same customisation possibilities as "Alphabetical
Index", i.e. hyperlinks are absent. This makes sense with an alphabetical index
because identical keys are merged and you cannot assign a unique return
hyperlink to several destinations.

IMHO, either "Index of Tables" should be deleted because it (poorly) duplicates
"Table of  Figures", or it should be modified so that entries are ordered
alphabetically (and perhaps merged on identical captions -- without numbering
of course) like in "Alphabetical Index".

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