Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 100296
numbered lists counted consecutively across sub-documents in master documents
Last modified: 2017-05-20 11:15:33 UTC
I have master documents, containig several sub-documents. The sub-documents contain numbered lists with up to 3 levels. In the sub-documents all the lists are fine. After updating the master document some of the lists (not all) look completely different than the original list in the sub-documet. -Lists do start with different values -Letters, used in the second or third level of the list change to numbers -Numbers change to bullest -Bullets change to numbers This does not happen do all the lists. I did not find any indication when it will happen. I have about 30 masterdocuments with sub-documents and it happens in nearly all of the 30 documents. Currently I use OpenOffice 3.0.1 (Build 9379) but the Problem also occurred in previous versions. Most of the times, the problem can be solved by going to the numbered list in the sub-document and using the function "Restart Numbering". Then I save the sub-document but do NOT close it. Then I update the masterdocument. Now the numbered lists are ok in the masterdocuemnt also. But after closing all sub-documents, the problem will occur again when I open and update the masterdocuemnt next time. I am not able to attach a document because they all contain confidential information, but if necessary I could try to generate an "empty" document which shows this problem.
Maybe you work with list styles where the names may interfere between the Master and the subdocuments? Yes, please attach a sample document here so that we can reproduce the problem here. You can also send one of the confidential sets directly to mru@openoffice.org. We here at SUN will of course handle the documents confidentialy. Thanks for supporting us!
Created attachment 61008 [details] Example files (master- and sub-documents) for issue100296
I use Open Suse Linux 10.3 and OpenOffice 3.0.1 (Build 9379) but the problem also appeared with OpenOffice 3.0 and 2.0.2. Using Windows XP Professional and OpenOffice 3.0.0 (Build 9358) there is no problem at all, so it seems to be something linux specific. The attached tar archive contains a masterdocument and 4 sub-documents. The sub-documents for chapter 2, 3 and 4 are copies of chapter 1 which I changed a lttle bit. So the paragraph styles are the same in each document. Before I updated the master document, I deleted the paragraph style which contains the numbering, so it was copied to the master during the first update. As numbering style Numbering 1 was used, which is an OpenOffice standard style. When the master document is updated, while the sub-documents are closed, the numbered lists are corrupt. If you update the masterdocument several times, the result is not always the same. When the master is updated, while the sub-documents are opened, it seems to be ok.
MRU->OD: very strange issue which only occurs on Unix systems. Open the attached Master document. Scroll down and see: - on Linux, the lists of Chapter 1-3 are counted consecutively - on Solaris, the lists of Chapter 1-2 are counted consecutively. On Windows, it works fine.
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