[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 141452] New: Rename Tools > Chapter Numbering back to Outline Numbering

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

            Bug ID: 141452
           Summary: Rename Tools > Chapter Numbering back to Outline
                    Numbering
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: Writer
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: eyalroz1 at gmx.com

Due to Bug 107573, Tools | Outline Numbering was renamed to Chapter Numbering.

I believe this was a mistake, for the following reasons:

R1. Most LO writer documents don't have Chapters.
R2. LO doesn't really have a concept of a Chapter. We have Sections, we have
Headings, but no chapters. If you look at the Help pages for LO (writer), and
search for Chapter, you will find pages mentioning Tools | Chapter Numbering,
and a page which mentions "Chapter numbers" in captions, but its contents does
not discuss chapters, only outline number levels.
R3. The argument for the rename, if I may recap it briefly is that the two
concepts are conflated, and that "Chapter Numbering" is widely used and users
will at least as easily, or more easily, identify the feature using the new
name. Even if this is true in Dutch, French and German, it is not true in other
languages, including English, Hebrew, and to my knowledge also Arabic.

The current state of affairs is confusing in two senses:

S1. A user (who doesn't speak French, German or Dutch) trying to setup their
outline numbering will fail to locate where to do so, since, most likely, their
document has no chapters.

S2. Users may expect to be able to create Chapters, and confused by the
inconsistent reference to their existence.

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