Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 78561
Drop caps should work for numbering (and vv.)
Last modified: 2013-08-07 14:38:26 UTC
1. Have a sample of text, format one or more paragraph(s) with "Heading 1". 2. Activate outline numbering, level 1, for Heading 1 (Tools -> Outline Numbering). 3. Activate drop caps for Heading 1 (Styles -> Heading 1 -> Modify -> Drop Caps). Expected: Chapter number (as automatically inserted by the outline numbering function) is displayed as a drop cap. (Cf. "expected.png" - simulation w/o automatic outline numbering.) Seen: The chapter number (as automatically inserted by the outline numbering function) is set before the drop cap, which consists of the first (manually inserted) character of the heading, with normal hight of text in this paragraph (i.e. 1 line). (Cf. "seen.png" - OOo2.2.1 B 9161 Linux RPM i86.) This makes a combination of both features, drop caps and outline numbering, unusable. It is also impossible to work around this problem by setting the character style for outline numbering 1 to "Hidden" - see discussion in German newsgroup (link above). Thanks for fixing.
Created attachment 45981 [details] Simulation of expected behaviour
Created attachment 45982 [details] Screenshot of actual behaviout, OOo2.2.1 B 9161 Linux RPM i86
confirmed. But this applies not only to outline numbering but to numbering (and bullets) in general. just apply drop caps and numbering (or bullets) to a paragraph. The number (or bullet) should now be used as drop cap.
MRU->FME: Currently number/bullet labels are not taken into account when a paragraph is formatted with drop caps. This looks quite ugly at the moment.