[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [PUSHED] Re: Disable auto-numbering by default

Jan Holesovsky kendy at suse.cz
Fri Mar 9 06:10:47 PST 2012


Hi Michael,

On 2012-03-09 at 09:55 +0000, Michael Meeks wrote:

> > Cameron is now working on a real solution; the plan is that the
> > auto-numbering will be triggered when you enter 1. and hit [Tab] (or
> > "<number>.[Tab]" in general); not as it is now that it triggers any time
> > when you hit enter in a paragraph that starts with a "<number>."
> 
> 	Will this happen for auto-bulleting too ? :-) "* foo<enter>" etc.

It is the same option - ie. that is now disabled in master too :-)

> 	I'm torn between making it -much- more intelligent so it doesn't go
> mangling my documents as I type into them ;-) [ in particular adding
> points to an existing, un-numbered list should not auto-break things ]
> and wanting to get rid of it altogether ;-) ie. no objections from me to
> have someone polishing it to make it better whichever way. I wonder what
> others think :-)

Let's see how it feels with the [Tab] immediately turning it into
numbering - I believe it will be good & useful :-)  But if not, we can
always just kill it.

Regards,
Kendy



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