Bug 130144 - Bullet of a list is not rendered
Summary: Bullet of a list is not rendered
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
6.3.4.2 release
Hardware: All Linux (All)
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
URL: http://docs.oasis-open.org/office/v1....
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Blocks: Bullet-Number-Outline-Lists
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Reported: 2020-01-23 12:59 UTC by Jambunathan K
Modified: 2023-04-17 16:00 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Attachments
list-table.odt: This is generated by Emacs Org mode ODT export engine (10.63 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text)
2020-01-23 13:02 UTC, Jambunathan K
Details
XML for the first list in `list-table.odt` (971 bytes, text/xml)
2020-01-23 13:03 UTC, Jambunathan K
Details
XML for the second list in `list-table.odt` (846 bytes, text/xml)
2020-01-23 13:04 UTC, Jambunathan K
Details
The first list has a leading paragraph, but the second one has none (934 bytes, patch)
2020-01-23 13:05 UTC, Jambunathan K
Details
list-table.png: I expect the second list to have a first level bullet. Instead I see none. (8.90 KB, image/png)
2020-01-23 13:06 UTC, Jambunathan K
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Description Jambunathan K 2020-01-23 12:59:18 UTC
Description:
Bullet of a list with an /empty leading paragraph/ is not rendered

Steps to Reproduce:
Open the attached `list-table.odt`.   I expect to see a first level bullet (but with an "empty" paragraph) for the second list. But I am not.  

When you examine the XML for the two lists, the only difference is that the first one has a "leading" paragraph and the second one has none.  Otherwise they have the same structure.




Actual Results:
(see 'steps to reproduce')

Expected Results:
(see 'steps to reproduce')


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



Additional Info:
Note:  I am not a 'user' but a developer.  I am not asking for how to achieve a desired typesetting,  instead I am questioning why LibreOffice is typesetting the list in along counter-intuitive and unexpected lines.  What does the OpenDocument standard say about rendering this particular list.
Comment 1 Jambunathan K 2020-01-23 13:02:37 UTC
Created attachment 157366 [details]
list-table.odt:  This is generated  by Emacs Org mode ODT export engine
Comment 2 Jambunathan K 2020-01-23 13:03:27 UTC
Created attachment 157367 [details]
XML for the first list in `list-table.odt`
Comment 3 Jambunathan K 2020-01-23 13:04:06 UTC
Created attachment 157368 [details]
XML for the second list in `list-table.odt`
Comment 4 Jambunathan K 2020-01-23 13:05:07 UTC
Created attachment 157369 [details]
The first list has a leading paragraph, but the second one has none
Comment 5 Jambunathan K 2020-01-23 13:06:01 UTC
Created attachment 157370 [details]
list-table.png:  I expect the second list to have a first level bullet.  Instead I see none.
Comment 6 Regina Henschel 2020-01-23 23:20:28 UTC
To investigate the problem, do not use bullets but numbers with different kind on each level, e.g. A, B, C for level 1 and 1, 2, 3 for level 2.

The second group of paragraphs is a two level list too, but you do not see it, because
1. There exists no level 1 paragraphs
2. The level 2 sub-lists have set attribute text:continue-numbering="true".

You cannot see a first level bullet in the second list, because there exists no paragraph, which could carry this bullet.

If you want the usual behavior of nested lists, you should configure the producer of the document to write text:continue-numbering="false" as default on all lists.


The error in LibreOffice is, that the numbering is _not_ continued in the upper list.

The relevant part of the ODF 1.2 spec is:
<quote>
19.781text:continue-numbering
The text:continue-numbering attribute specifies, if the numbering of the preceding list is continued or not. This attribute is ignored, if attribute text:continue-list 19.780 is present.

The defined values for the text:continue-numbering attribute are:

    ●true: if text:continue-list attribute is not present and the numbering style of the preceding list is the same as the current list, the number of the first list item in the current list is the number of the last item in the preceding list incremented by one.  

    ●false: if the text:continue-list attribute is not present, the numbering of the preceding list is not continued.
</quote>
Comment 7 QA Administrators 2022-01-23 03:42:41 UTC
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