[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 144563] New: Fields referencing numbered lists now have "." in the generated text where they did not before

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144563

            Bug ID: 144563
           Summary: Fields referencing numbered lists now have "." in the
                    generated text where they did not before
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: 7.2.0.4 release
          Hardware: All
                OS: Mac OS X (All)
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: Writer
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: docfound2021 at tangentsoft.com

If you have a document with a numbered list and then say Insert → Field → More
Fields..., then select Numbered Paragraphs from the Type box and Number from
the "Insert reference to" box and click one of the list elements in the
Selection box to the right, it used to put just the referenced number or letter
into the document.

Some very recent release version changed this. I'm not sure exactly when, but I
track the latest releases with the Homebrew cask, so LibreOffice gets silently
upgraded on me soon after each release.

This represents a regression in longstanding behavior. It causes my
carefully-formatted documents to be reflowed, since the field contents are now
longer.

It's fine if this is an intended feature, since although I consider the change
ugly, I can see that some people may want it. However, please offer an option
to revert it to the prior behavior. Also, the behavior probably shouldn't be
changed on existing documents.

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