[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 143907] CHAPTER NUMBERING: LO Writer fails to properly align, if a certain paragraph style is used

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143907

--- Comment #12 from Eek! A Bug. Kill it! <tarotfied at protonmail.com> ---
(In reply to Justin L from comment #5)
> There is no real problem here (see below), but I only see this happening for
> level 3 and not level 4 or below.
> 
> I saw the same thing happening for level 4 etc until LO 5.2 which was fixed
> by author	Luke Deller on 2016-05-10 07:23:33 +0000
> commit	77171fc384b3c6359cdae026a0c38f2f112c9d60
>     Remove default outline indent, fixes tdf#95576
> 
> Earlier in 5.2 (and 5.1) we couldn't change the value at all - the UI was
> broken. Fixed by author	Noel Grandin on 2016-04-05 09:41:31 +0200
> commit	c10d56c6c33ad27d9f4fb12e499a8b246d88da9f
>     tdf#98647 fix bug in tools->outline-numbering
> 
> Level 3 was already acting differently (while level 4 worked) in LO 3.5.
> 
> 
> BUT - ALL OF THAT IS IRRELEVANT because in this doc, heading 3 has been
> defined with some specific properties that are not specified in the other
> headings.
> 
> <style:style style:display-name="Heading 3">
>   <style:paragraph-properties fo:margin-left="0in" fo:margin-right="0in"/>
> 
> So the style has hard-coded a zero left margin - which overrides the
> numbering values. When these two margins are removed from styles.xml, then
> the chapter numbering values can take effect. (This can be see in the UI by
> editing the style and looking at the Organizer tab. To fix, on the Indents &
> Spacing tab, press "Reset to parent".)



I do not understand how you can state that there is no problem because it only
happens on one level - especially when you go on to point out that this same
thing happened in the past, but on a different level. You found exactly what I
found, but I did not use direct styling on that sample document. The same thing
happens on any document I create from scratch - not from a template. The
process you outlined may work (I have yet to try it), but it is too involved
for the average user to implement, and it should not be necessary in any case.
Plus, how is the average user even to know where to look for a solution? An
awful lot of potential users leave LO out of sheer frustration over how
difficult it is to learn and these little bugs just add to their frustration.
Well, that is just my opinion, but I believe a valid one.

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