Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer: Using “spell out” chapter numbering styles

Remy Gauthier wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been trying to experiment with the "spell out" numbering styles
> in Writer. To setup my document, I went to Tools -> Chapter Numbering,
> and selected "One, two, three..." for Numbering with Heading 1 at level
> 1, and "First, Second, Third" for Numbering with Heading 2 at level 2.
> I then went to an empty document, set the style of the first line to
> "Heading 1", and the style of the second line to "Heading 2". My
> document now looks like this:
>
> 1<tab>Some text here
> Ordinal-number 1<tab>Some text here
>
> I was expecting something more along the lines of:
>
> One<tab>Some text here
> First<tab>Some text here

On Linux Mint, using LibreOffice 6.1.2.1 from the LibreOffice PPA, I get 
what you expect:
  One Some text here
  First Some text here

If I change the document language (Tools > Language > For All Text) to 
French, the numbering text changes to French:
  Un Some text here
  Premier Some text here
(I don't understand much French, but that looks about right to me)

Also works for Greek, even though I don't have a Greek language pack 
installed (no spellchecking available):
  Ένα Some text here
  Πρώτος Some text here
(I assume the text is correct!)

But for some other languages (e.g. Gaelic), I do get what you're seeing:
  1 Some text here
  Ordinal 1 Some text here

> The same seems to be happening with the page numbering (Style -> Page
> tab -> page Number), where I still get numbered page numbers as opposed
> to "spelled out" page numbers.

For me, page numbering also works as you expect, the same as chapter 
numbering.

> My defaut LANG setting is fr_CA.utf8, and the behavior is exactly the
> same with en_US.utf8, or just "C". Running LO 6.1.2.1 on Fedora 27,
> downloaded from the LO site.

I'm on Linux Mint, using LibreOffice 6.1.2.1 from the LibreOffice PPA. 
LANG is en_GB.UTF-8.

> What am I missing?

Sorry, I can't see anything obvious, other than the difference in 
distro. As far as I know, the PPA version is based on unmodified 
LibreOffice sources, but maybe there's something included in the PPA 
packages but not the RPMs which makes it work for me. Perhaps someone 
else will have some suggestions...

--
Mark.


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