<html> <head> <base href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/"> </head> <body> <div> <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW - UI: User interface for outline numbering is confusing with possibilities offered both at Format>Paragraph ... Outline numbering and at Tools>Outline numbering" href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83071#c29">Comment # 29</a> on <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW - UI: User interface for outline numbering is confusing with possibilities offered both at Format>Paragraph ... Outline numbering and at Tools>Outline numbering" href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83071">bug 83071</a> from <a class="email" href="mailto:albrecht.mueller@astrail.de" title="Albrecht Müller <albrecht.mueller@astrail.de>"> Albrecht Müller</a> <pre>(In reply to Regina Henschel from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=83071#c28">comment #28</a>) Thank you for the explanation. I hope I will remember it when I need it next time - maybe next year. This can save me the work to set all the outline formats individually but still requires two operations per file: Importing styles and selecting outline formats. I noticed the "Format" button only after I had finished my work. It was not immediately clear how this works: There is a "save as" option but no corresponding "load" option. So I did not invest additional time trying to find out how this mechanism works. I assume that this process could be automated using the UNO interface. Unfortunately I did not find good documentation and/or tools that allowed me to locate the necessary objects and methods within some reasonable time span. > [The UI is confusing :( ] The following is based on my incomplete understanding of the mechanisms, so I may be wrong. An important source of confusion is the fact that there are two ways of attaching numbers to paragraphs: Outline numbering and list styles. From a practical point of view the main difference between the two is that the former will appear in the table of content and the latter will not. But they are implemented as two independent features with separate user interfaces and storage mechanisms. The user interface tries to make sure that each paragraph uses at most one of these mechanisms. This leads to strange interactions, e.g. you can use the button "Toggle Numbered List (F12)" on some paragraph that participates in outline numbering. This seems to copy the content of the numbering style into the corresponding level of the outline numbering format. You may be tempted to define two different list styles, one for the main text and one for the appendix and to apply them to headings. I guess this will not work because the list styles will be mapped to outline numbering which does not support two different styles for the same outline level.</pre> </div> <hr> You are receiving this mail because: <ul> <li>You are the assignee for the bug.</li> </ul> </body> </html>