[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 141398] Reduce user's work load for inserting cross-references

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141398

--- Comment #12 from Mike Kaganski <mikekaganski at hotmail.com> ---
(In reply to Christian Lehmann from comment #11)
> This is not a "personal preference" of mine, but has been standard in
> earlier versions of LO.

No, I have checked in all 10 major versions starting from v. 5.2 (where the
selection box was introduced [1]). and it was always the same: it searched the
entered text anywhere in the text of paragraph. E.g., entering "3.2" would
bring 13 results, including "2. final infinitival: ch. 2.1.3.2." and
"2.2.2.1.3.2. Frustrated action construction".

Furthermore, as I mentioned above, it is incorrect to imply that the preference
to use numbers in the search is universal; in writing, the numbering is
automatic, and user often does not even know which number one of the point
might have at any given time, because of added or removed or restructured
points above.

> As long as there is sufficient evidence that a certain behavior of LO would
> be useful for a set of users, the question of whether the reporter or the
> developer have a personal preference for it is of little importance.

Your proposal was re-worded at the end of comment 10 to follow that idea :-)

> Now as to the technical aspect: It is true that in the Numbering Styles,
> Writer allows for Numbering alignment not only at the left, but also at the
> right side and even centered. So as long as the link provider does not
> identify the "number" of a numbered element (where, in LO jargon, a "number"
> is anything used to label a paragraph), it is true that the enhancement
> proposed would initially only work for numbers in initial position, as you
> say. (Users numbering mathematical or logical formulas at the page margin
> would be disadvantaged by that.)

Yes.

[1]
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/5.2#Selection_Filter_in_Cross_Reference_Tab

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