Bug 116347 - Allow multiple list levels (numbering) on the same line
Summary: Allow multiple list levels (numbering) on the same line
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
3.3.0 release
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Keywords: needsUXEval
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Blocks: Bullet-Number-Outline-Lists
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Reported: 2018-03-11 13:03 UTC by Kees van den Broek
Modified: 2018-03-13 08:58 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Workaround with layout table (10.63 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text)
2018-03-12 20:42 UTC, Regina Henschel 		Details
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Description Kees van den Broek 2018-03-11 13:03:29 UTC 
Description:
A numbered list can be created like this:

1.

     a. hi
     b. there

However, I want to format it like this:

1.   a. hi
     b. there

List numbering of 1. and a. should be on the same line because there's no content for article 1., only for sub a. Legal texts should usually look like this.

It seems this currently can't be achieved in LO writer (tried with 6.0.2).


Actual Results:  
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Expected Results:
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Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



Additional Info:


User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/55.0.2883.87 Safari/537.36
Comment 1 Thomas Lendo 2018-03-12 19:20:17 UTC 
Regina: Ist this possible in ODF to have 2 levels of a list in one line? LibreOffice can't/shouldn't implement a feature that isn't possible in default file format.
Comment 2 Regina Henschel 2018-03-12 20:42:02 UTC 
Created attachment 140593 [details]
Workaround with layout table

No, it is not possible.

Workaround: Use a table with 2 columns. In the first, very small column set paragraph to list level 1 and in the second column write all paragraphs, which belong under this list item and set them to list level 2. Next row again, the first level in first column and all sub-items in second column. Drawback: Rearrangement of list items is more laborious.
Comment 3 Thomas Lendo 2018-03-12 23:20:41 UTC 
Kees, thanks for your idea but if it's not (yet) in scope of ODF then LibreOffice can't implement that in an interoperable way.

Closing as WONTFIX. If this is incorrect or if ODF will allow this in a forseeable future, please adjust the status of this bug.

Thanks, Regina, for the workaround. Maybe others are available too.
Comment 4 Kees van den Broek 2018-03-13 07:38:51 UTC 
Not the answer I was hoping for, but thanks for the fast response and workaround.

Would it make sense to file a feature request for ODF-next? Also, where does one file this? https://issues.oasis-open.org looks like a closed community as I can register myself.
Comment 5 Kees van den Broek 2018-03-13 07:39:50 UTC 
(In reply to Kees van den Broek from comment #4)
> Not the answer I was hoping for, but thanks for the fast response and
> workaround.
> 
> Would it make sense to file a feature request for ODF-next? Also, where does
> one file this? https://issues.oasis-open.org looks like a closed community
> as I can register myself.

I meant: can't register myself.