From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Harkins Subject: ox-odt: List items contain body paragraphs, confusing styles Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2017 22:47:59 -0400 Message-ID: <15dee1721ff.1065cbcc844521.4283798913058133@zoho.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39532) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1diAqt-0000IF-2W for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Aug 2017 22:48:07 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1diAqp-0001bm-W1 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Aug 2017 22:48:07 -0400 Received: from sender-pp-091.zoho.com ([135.84.80.236]:25144) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1diAqp-0001aO-Na for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Aug 2017 22:48:03 -0400 In-Reply-To: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Emacs-orgmode" To: emacs-orgmode Hi, haven't been active here for a while (which is a good thing -- it means I haven't had any problems worth mentioning!). Now I have one -- ODT export encodes list items as a list-item containing a "text:p": blah blah When LibreOffice reads this, it applies indentation settings from the Text_20_body paragraph style to the list item. So, for instance, if you're writing for a journal that requires a .doc and it also requires paragraphs to be first-line indented, it becomes impossible to have hanging bullets in bullet lists -- the list outdents the bullet by 0.25" but the paragraph style then indents this by 0.5" for a net indent of 0.25". ask.libreoffice.org says "It is usually preferable to make paragraph styles formatting lists independent from bulk text styles"[1] -- i.e., applying the same style to a list-item paragraph as to a free-standing paragraph is not recommended. I can guess structurally why this occurs -- I suppose org parses it as a list-item node containing a paragraph node, and the paragraph node is encoded first, without any knowledge of its context. I will try to write a filter for this, but this looks like an unexpected interaction, so, perhaps a bug. Thanks, hjh [1] https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/123222/text-body-style-with-intent-affects-bulleted-list-style-as-well/