Re: ox-odt: List items contain body paragraphs, confusing styles

[Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>]

Hello,

James Harkins <jamshark70@zoho.com> writes:

> 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":
>
> <text:list text:style-name="OrgBulletedList" text:continue-numbering="false">
> <text:list-item>
>
> <text:p text:style-name="Text_20_body">blah blah</text:p>
>
> </text:list-item>
> </text:list>
>
> 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.

So, what style-name should have the inner paragraph? If it is a new
style, what would be its definition?

It's not difficult to check, upon exporting a paragraph, if it belongs
to a list item or not: (org-element-lineage paragraph '(item))

BTW, is it different for nested paragraphs, e.g., what should be the
style for the following 3 paragraphs:

  - para 1

    para 2

    - para 3

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou