Re: [libreoffice-users] Numbering help.

Well,

From a style guide perspective, if you are not changing the numbering
style, you shouldn't be changing the font.

I _assume_ you are looking to create something like this:

1  The Art of Slamming Head Against Wall
    1.1  Place Palms Flat Against Wall
    1.2  Bend Elbows 45 degrees
    1.3  Rear Head Back as far as Possible
    1.4  Throw Body Weight Behind Forward Head Movement
2  The Art of Being Kicked in the Head

I am working from memory here, didn't test this, but you are not
supposed to be globally changing a font after the fact.  You are
supposed to have an outline style with a numbering style at each
level.  

Take a look at Tools->Outline Numbering.  You can specify a different
paragraph style for each level.

On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 13:27 +1200, Steve Edmonds wrote:

> Hi.
> I have got myself into a state with numbering that may be someone could
> help me get out of, or if there is no way out may be it will lead to a
> bug being filed.
> I have been making notes for a company LO styles usage manual and
> looking at what users have been doing and what they should have done and
> how to fix up their manuals.
>
> I will simply explain how to recreate the problem and possibly someone
> can help me with the correction.
>
> 1-Create a new writer document.
> 2-Add say 5 lines of text.
> 3-Apply list style Numbering 1 to get outline numbering.
> 4-Highlight line 2 and "Demote one level"
> 5-With line 2 now demoted change the font size of the text after the
> numbering. The size of the outline numbering on line 2 changes to match.
>
> This is all as expected and as historically has happened through LO and OO.
>
> 6-Now click on the outline numbering (so just the numbering is
> highlighted in gray) And change the font to another font and change the
> font size to another size. The outline numbering all changes.
> 7-highlight line 4 and "Demote one level"
> 8-With line 4 now demoted change the font size of the text after the
> numbering.
>
> The size of the outline numbering no longer changes to match the text.
> The outline numbering is fixed the same font, size, weight everywhere.
>
> My question is how do I undo this so that the outline numbering will
> again follow the characteristics of the text it appears in front of.
>
> I have deleted all numbering and all content from the document but now
> for any list I create or list style I apply to the document the outline
> numbering is in the font and size I set it 6 above and not matching the
> characters after the numbering as did occur originally. This one click
> and change to the outline font has completely mucked up my whole
> document (As I had size 16pt bold major points level 1 and size 12pt sub
> points and now they are all either 16 or 12 and bold or not).
> Thanks, steve


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