Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 17950
first paragraph after a table looses numbering
Last modified: 2003-12-04 12:04:57 UTC
Hi, I'll create an attachement to show what I mean: You'll see a one-line Table of Content-field. The next paragraph you see is a paragraph where I put the letter "x" only and which is of style "heading". In the contrary of the following paragraph (which is also "heading" and working all right) you *don't have no numbering* displayed here! It is disappeared. And you can't re-produce it in clicking again to "heading" in the "stylist". As you can see that even my "text body" style has a numbering (the "+" sign) by default all this leads to the problem that after tables I've got one paragraph which I can't use...
Created attachment 8290 [details] sample sxw file
The lastest release is 1.1rc3. Please advise if upgrading has solved this issue for you. If not, I think this might be an issue that the users mailing list can help you with. Please advise of status. Thank you, Tam
Hi Tam, first let me confirm the "issue" for RC3. Second: Yesterday I was again typing in a doc (with the same numbering / list 1 style for my paragraphs)--and even without using a table one of the paragraphes lost its numbering. See attachement test3.sxw I will attach now. There are workarounds for it--but it's not as easy as reassigning the "text body" paragraph style to it: nothing changes. You have to assign other styles and then come back to "text body" style etc. Even though this might not be a "big" issue I think all this is a quite strange behaviour--especially because the style catalog in these unnormal paragraphes lead the user to wrong information: the style catalog still says that these paragraphs (which appear numbering) *do* have numbering / list 1... Thank you! btw: I've seen this behaviour for several versions of OO now!
Created attachment 8625 [details] sxw doc
sorry, a typo! The last sentence should be: "the style catalog still says that these paragraphs (which appear WITHOUT numbering) *do have* numbering / list 1... Thank you!"
Hi, Felix Thanks for the additional information and document. Unfortunately, I can't confirm this issue. While "line 2" did, indeed, show as having the "text body" style applied, and yet was not numbered as you desired, this behavior will occur if/when you press "enter" twice. However, when I placed the cursor on that line and applied the "text body" style, the behavior was as expected and the style was applied. Likewise, when I selected several lines of text and applied the "text body" style, the style was applied as it should have been. You are saying that this does not work for you, and you have to apply a different style and then re-apply your "text body" style, but I am not experiencing this. Therefore, please send more information about your system, i.e., which distribution of Linux you are using and your desktop (GNOME or KDE?), and perhaps someone with your configuration will be able to confirm the problems you are having. Thanks! Tam WinXPPro/RH9/KDE 3.1/OOo 1.1rc3
Hi Tam, thanks for the answer! To be more precise now: :-) (1) You are right - forget about test3.sxw, please! I can't reproduce this behaviour either. Sorry. (2) But things are different with my first attachement (test.sxw). There is a heading (see line I marked with an "x") which should be numbered but the numbering (list1) isn't displayed for some reason. First, I don't know why (maybe there is any sense in it?). Second, here it is not possible to get back the numbering via re-assigning the "heading" style to this paragraph... Notice also, that the second heading is numbered correctly (with "II.")-- so, oowriter knows that there is a heading above somewhere (which is true) but it doesn't give it a numbering ("I."). Now: (3) Maybe this has something to do with the Table of Content before..? Notice that the "Heading of the Table of Contents" is numbered "I."! And really: The style of the Table of Content has numbering turned on. So I change this style and set numbering to "none". It disappears (ok) but my heading below (with the "x") still doesn't get its numbering... (4) Further: Save the doc as test2.sxw, close it, reopen it. Place the cursor into the paragraph "Heading of Table of Content", click right and select "Update Table": There the numbering for the heading of the table appears again!! Why? Maybe all this is just one bug (?) I am using gentoo-linux (www.gentoo.org, kernel 2.4.20), no KDE, no GNOME but fvwm-2.5.7 with xfree-4.3.99. I hope you can follow my chaotic descriptions! :-) Felix
Let me add something related to numbered paragraphs (I don't start a new issue for that since this is just a minor issue): page breaks, column breaks etc. If you have numbered paragraphs and insert a page break then you get a numbered (but empty) paragraph on the first page -- and a second numbered paragraph on the second page. This is not what the users expects. To delete the unwanted numbered paragraph on the first page you have to go there and delete it. A solution to this (and maybe to many other problems with numbered paragraphs) in my point of view is that the line feed / carriare return sign is treated as a character! This is of course due to former text applications where the chr(13) had to be inserted. What, if you would treat a page break as as *property of a paragraph* (like you have indents, spaces before and after etc)? This would not only solve the page break / numbering thing but also add the feature that e.g. a headline style could automatically include a page or column break.
Sorry: In my last comment, please replace "The solution for this" (4th paragraph) with "The problem is ..."
reassigend to jw will try to reproduce
i see what you ment, but if i activate reactivate numbering and bullets for this paragraph i got the numbering for this paraghraph with the x. but i see you are right numbering and bullets is allready set for this paragraph strange. but i am not able to produce an document like this, if i inseret a index/table and assign numbering to it and after this table set a heading with numbering enabled this will be set. so i please tell me, if possible with an step by step advice what you did. set keyword needmoreinfo
Hi, I am sorry that I can't give you step by step instructions how to reproduce a document with the same behaviour. Only thing I found out: The header in my attachements doesn't seem to have any effects on that. You can switch it off, save, reload, you get the same. Please notice: It's true, the template to this doc is kind of old (created with OpenOffice 1.0?). And the problem may be caused by currupted styles (however these are stored in the file). So, one of the probs we have is, that these errors occur far later than you can imagine what you did. Maybe only after upgrading OpenOffice. You shouldn't set this error to worksforme or something similar, though. Many users will have the problem to upgrade OpenOffice but *use their OLD templates*. Since I get more of these kind of errors (see my other issues if they aren't deleted meanwhile): I beleve that the only way to solve all this you should have a strict filter/parser to old sxw templates! Besides this general proposal I could only recommend this: My impression is that assigning/reassigning numbering is point to start with. Why isn't it numbered correctly at once after being loaded? Further: Why can't you get the numbering via simply click again on "heading" but have to assign another style to it first? Sorry, if I can't give you more precise details!
i will make further investigations on this file. this might be an regression. still will leave this unconfirmed until i can say more about this error
added needmoreinfo
hello felix. to the first file. this behaviour is now clear. if you press, maybe accidently, the backspace button, the textstyle will be persist but the numbering will disappear. this is a feature. i will set this to invalid and close this
invalid -> closed