HOW I UNDERSTAND OPENOFFICE WORKS:
Line numbers are kind of binary thing.  You either (1) have them off for the
whole document or (2) on for the whole document.  You can specify what the
counting scheme (count by 5, count by 1, restart counting at each page break,
etc.) is for the whole document and only for the whole document.  You may
opt-out of the line numbers for each style, but you may not change the counting
scheme for that style.  


PROBLEM:
I need some sections of the document to have no line numbers, some to count by
5, and some to count by 1.  I need some sections to restart the line number
counting at the top of each page, and other sections to start recounting at the
beginning of the section.

So, an example document may include the following sections, with the following
settings:
header/footer (pages 1-7), has no line numbers;
section #1 (page 1), has no line numbers;
section #2 (pages 2-4), has line numbers that count by 5 and restart counting at
the top of every page;
sections #3, 5, 7, 9, & 11(all on page 5), have no line numbers;
sections #4, 6, 8, 10, & 12 (also all on page 5), have line numbers, which count
by 1 and restart at the beginning of each section;
section #13 (page 6), has line numbers that count by 5 and restart counting at
the top of every page;
section #14 (page 7), has no line numbers.

When MS Word documents, setup with the above line numbering, import into
OpenOffice, OpenOffice takes the 1st section with line numbers, enables that
sections line numbering scheme as the default behaviour for the entire document.
 In later sections, any subsequent line numbering properties are ignored.

So, an example document that OpenOffice produces includes the following
sections, with the following settings:
header/footer (pages 1-7), has line numbers that count by 5 and never restart
counting (which means the header on page 3 has a 5 next to it);
sections #1-14 (pages 1-7), has line numbers that count by 5 and restart
counting at the top of every page.

I have a ZIP file with a DOC, PDF (for the DOC) and SXW of an example of the
line numbering that I want and what OpenOffice does with it.  Once, this is
assigned, I can email it to the issues owner.


REQUESTED ENCHANTMENT:
Increase the granularity of the line numbering schemes.  Allow me to fully
change the line numbering scheme for each section/style/paragraph and the
header/footer.

While, for a MS Word person, it would be most intuitive to have line numbering
schemes follow the section boundaries, it might be easiest to leverage off the
existing opt-out by style setup.  I think having a full blown line numbering
capability associated with the style would be as intuitive as associating the
line numbers with the sections. 

For what I do the lack of line number flexibility is kind of a show stopper. 
However, I am very impressed with everything.


PS:
This is platform independent (Win2k/XP and Redhat 7.3)
Also a server error occurred while trying to submit this the 1st time
(timeout?).  Sorry for any repeat.