Numbering And Bullet Enhancements 1

OpenOffice and StarOffice Writer

Document - ID	Specification Owner	Last Change	Status
	Frank Loehmann	28 August 2005	Final
Conforms to	
Applies to	OpenOffice Writer
Task ID(s)	i42356, i42357, i42365
Category	Feature

Abstract

Interoperability between other text processors and OpenOffice.org (OO.org) Writer has to be further improved for OO.org 2.0. The document conversion ability for documents containing bullet lists or numberings into Writer documents is improved by extending the software core functionality of bullet/numbering functionality. This specification covers left overs which did not make into OOo 2.0.

Feature Team

Specification Owner	Frank Loehmann	frank.loehmann@sun.com
Marketing Contact	-	-
User Experience Contact	Frank Loehmann	frank.loehmann@sun.com
Development Contact	Henning Brinkmann	henning.brinkmann@sun.com
Quality Assurance Contact	Michael Ruess	michael.ruess@sun.com
Documentation Contact	Uwe Fischer	uwe.fischer@sun.com

Approved for Implementation

	Approved by	Date
User Experience	Frank Loehmann	28.08.2005
Development	Henning Brinkmann	n/a (copy & paste from aproved original numbering spec. for OOo 2.0)
Quality Assurance	Michael Rüss	n/a (copy & paste from aproved original numbering spec. for OOo 2.0)
Documentation	Uwe Fischer	n/a (copy & paste from aproved original numbering spec. for OOo 2.0)
String Review	Frank Loehmann	Done

Document History

Version	Author	Comment
Draft 12 July 2005	Frank Loehmann	
Signed 29. September 2005	Andreas Martens	

Contents

Glossary	1

References	1

1	Motivation	1

2	Detailed Specification	1

2.0.1	Context menu changes (#i42356)	1

2.0.2	Bullet Representation for OpenOffice.org and StarOffice (#i42357)	2

3	Future Tasks	2

4	Legal Issues	2

5	Notes	2

Glossary

Term	Description
Label text	A number or bullet including its prefix and suffix.
Label distance	The distance between the start of a number/bullet and the paragraph's text as specified in the numbering/bullet specification.
Tab character	The tabulator character in the paragraph.
Tab stop	The tabulator position in the ruler.
TOX	A table of x where x is one of the following: table of contents alphabetical index illustration index index of tables user-defined index table of objects bibliography

References

”Q” MS-Interoperability PRD

“Q” Ease-of-use PRD

Part 2 of Specification (target OOo 3.0): http://specs.openoffice.org/writer/numbering/NumberingBullet2.sxw

Motivation

This specification covers left overs which did not make into OOo 2.0.

Detailed Specification

Context menu changes (#i42356)

The context menu of a numbering or bullet list changes as follows:

Default

______________________

Restart Numbering

Continue Previous Numbering

[show icon in menu] Up One Level

[show icon in menu] Down One Level

______________________

[...]

Strings

Item	English	German	Comments
Context menu item	Restart numbering	Nummerierung neu starten	
Context menu item	Continue previous numbering	Vorherige Nummerierung fortsetzen	
Context menu item with icon	Up One Level	(use existing translation)	Use existing translation
Context menu item with icon	Down One Level	(use existing translation)	Use existing translation

Bullet Representation for OpenOffice.org and StarOffice (#i42357)

StarOffice uses the StarSymbol and OpenOffice.org uses the OpenSymbol font. The default bullets are changed to match competition. Please see the following table for details.

	Font OpenSymbol (OS) /StarSymbol (SSY) / Albany (A)	
Level	OS	SSY	Albany	MS	Character #	Size	1. Line Indent	Tab/indent after bullet	Indent
1	●	●	●		U+25CF		0,63cm	1,27cm	1,27cm
2	○	○	○	o	U+25CB	!	1,90cm	2,54cm	2,54cm
3	■	■	■		U+25A0		3,17cm	3,81cm	3,81cm
4	●	●	●		U+25CF		4,44cm	5,08cm	5,08cm
5	○	○	○	o	U+25CB	!	5,71cm	6,35cm	6,35cm
6	■	■	■		U+25A0		6,98cm	7,62cm	7,62cm
7	●	●	●		U+25CF		8,25cm	8,89cm	8,89cm
8	○	○	○	o	U+25CB	!	9,52cm	10,16cm	10,16cm
9	■	■	■		U+25A0		10,79cm	11,43cm	11,43cm
10	●	●	●		U+25CF		12,06cm	12,70cm	12,70cm

Note: Sizes of the bullets have to be changed to best match the size of the competition. Even the sizes between OpenSymbol and StarSymbol seem to be different and have to be aligned.

Future Tasks

none

Legal Issues

none

Notes

High effort

Show status (numbering/bullet on/off) via numbering/bullet button in object bar.

Microsoft Word XP

The indents increase about 1,27cm from one level to another.

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2003-04-09T20:08:48

Frank Loehmann