On Thursday 13 March 2003 21:10, Daniel Vogelheim wrote:

Very interesting reasoning and development of the issue.

I think this raises the following question: shouldn't discontinued lists, (like the numbering of tables, pictures, etc.) be modelled with the above solution? This would be, I think, "cleaner" in terms of structure than the current OO solution (of autonumbered variables).

1. pict one 2. pict two 1) table one 2) table two 3. pict three (1). equation one 3) table three (2). equation two 4. pict four

Each paragraph belongs to one of the 3 discontinued lists going on here (picts, tables, equations).

I think this would even allow some more features than simple autonumbered counters, like being able to refer to a given picture twice without getting the number increased twice. It would also give all the features available for list counters (without having to redevelop or refactor the code for auto- numbered variables).

For such lists there is obviously no "XML-structured list" solution. However the closest XML-clean solution is simply to associate each paragraph with a list style.... and to set the continue-numbering flag. Hmm, I guess this means that the OO file format already has support for this, it's just not being used for this case by OO itself AFAIK.