Bug 132045 - LO Writer: Bug in Automatic Numbering when continuing a Numbering
Summary: LO Writer: Bug in Automatic Numbering when continuing a Numbering
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
6.3.5.2 release
Hardware: All Linux (All)
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Reported: 2020-04-11 09:13 UTC by Adalbert Hanßen
Modified: 2020-04-26 20:45 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Attachments
a sample with screenshots what I did and what went wrong. How to circumvent the bug (awkward in a longer example) (79.34 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text)
2020-04-11 09:15 UTC, Adalbert Hanßen
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Description Adalbert Hanßen 2020-04-11 09:13:30 UTC
Description:
Continuing an automatic numbering of paragraphs does not work if there are bullted paragraphs in between. I can not continue the numbering scheme from above after I have made tha paragraph a numbered one. See attached file with screenshots and an example

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Create a situation as in the attached example
2.make the paragraph belowed the bullted pargraphs a nubered one
3.let it continue the numbering from above
3.

Actual Results:
It does nit continue the numbering (in this case with 2)

Expected Results:
Numbering continues from above.

Note: There might be situations when two levels of numbering end in one place like this:

1.
2.
  a
  b
    ba
    bb
3.



Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No


OpenGL enabled: Yes

Additional Info:
Version: 6.3.5.2
Build ID: dd0751754f11728f69b42ee2af66670068624673
CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 5.3; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3; 
Locale: de-DE (de_DE.UTF-8); UI-Language: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 1 Adalbert Hanßen 2020-04-11 09:15:50 UTC
Created attachment 159486 [details]
a sample with screenshots what I did and what went wrong. How to circumvent the bug (awkward in a longer example)
Comment 2 Jean-Baptiste Faure 2020-04-13 09:45:24 UTC
To fix the numbering, do the following:
1/ select the four paragraphs, that is from "Damit jemand" to "nachdrucken können."
2/ On the numbering toolbar, click on Bullet and Numbering button
3/ click on the last tab (Customize) of the dialog "Bullets and Numbering".
4/ Level 1 is correct, so select level 2 and after Number, choose Bullet. After Character, choose the character you want as bullet
5/ click OK button

Then your paragraph numbering is configured as you want. If you want insert a level 1 paragraph after a level 2 one, hit Enter at the end of the level 2 paragraph (you get a new level 2 paragraph), then go up one level with Shift+TAB in front of the paragraph (TAB go down one level).

Does that work for you?
Status has been set to NEEDINFO, please set it back to UNCONFIRMED once requested information has been provided.

It is better if you use a list style and customize it to match your need. A list style is a paragraph style associated with a multi-level numbering style.
 
For me there is no bug there. I propose to close this bug report as WorksForMe.

Best regards. JBF
Comment 3 Dieter 2020-04-13 11:14:22 UTC
I agree with Jean-Baptiste. Looking at the layout of your document, there is only one list, first level with numbers and second level with bullets. So for me NOTABUG.
Comment 4 Adalbert Hanßen 2020-04-26 17:05:46 UTC
(In reply to Jean-Baptiste Faure from comment #2)
> To fix the numbering, do the following:
> 1/ select the four paragraphs, that is from "Damit jemand" to "nachdrucken
> können."
> 2/ On the numbering toolbar, click on Bullet and Numbering button
> 3/ click on the last tab (Customize) of the dialog "Bullets and Numbering".
> 4/ Level 1 is correct, so select level 2 and after Number, choose Bullet.
> After Character, choose the character you want as bullet
> 5/ click OK button
> 
> Then your paragraph numbering is configured as you want. If you want insert
> a level 1 paragraph after a level 2 one, hit Enter at the end of the level 2
> paragraph (you get a new level 2 paragraph), then go up one level with
> Shift+TAB in front of the paragraph (TAB go down one level).
> 
> Does that work for you?
> Status has been set to NEEDINFO, please set it back to UNCONFIRMED once
> requested information has been provided.
> 
> It is better if you use a list style and customize it to match your need. A
> list style is a paragraph style associated with a multi-level numbering
> style.
>  
> For me there is no bug there. I propose to close this bug report as
> WorksForMe.
> 
> Best regards. JBF

Thank you, JBF, for your precise explanation of how to make such a numbering. Thank you also for your advice to create a list style for hierarchical numbering since this can be more easily reused in the same and even in other documents after adding ti to my standard template.

Maybe one should add an example to the documentation, where the top level is e.g. numbered with Roman numerals, the next lower level with Arabic numerals, then the next with upper case letters, and the next lower level with lower case letters. 

If there had been such an example, I would not have been so hung up on the spot and would not have seen a bug there.