10 ball bullet for bulleted lists

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#1

Libre Office Version: 5.0.3.2 (x64) on Windows 7 Home (x64) SP1

In Writer, All my documents with bulleted lists .. the graphic for the bullets have all changed to a ten ball as in Pool Ball number 10.
It's the first graphic in the bulleted list graphic choice list. The second choice is the plain black dot.

How do I get my plain dots back and get rid of that ugly 10 ball? ALL my documents in Writer, even my old documents before this new version, have changed to that ugly 10 ball for bulleted lists. I have to go through the whole document and change each bulleted list bullet back to plain black dot. Not very productive.

I have a custom default template in place.. it just changes the font/size, margins, on screen page size, and indentation settings.

I can't change that black 10 ball bullet (default) to a better default bullet... or I don't know how to do it.

E.W.

#2

Hello,
In my version (LO 5.0.3), the bullets look like they come from the Open
Symbol font. Are you sure this font is available on your system (you
can check by looking at the list that appears in the font pulldown on
the formating toolbar)? It could be that LO's font substitution picks a
font similar to Open Symbol and this causes your "10 ball" to appear.
If the font is not available on your system, you can download it from
many different sites and install it.
Regards,
Rémy Gauithier.

#3

@E.W.

The heavy handed way to clear this would be to rename your user profile and
start clean, recreate your template and migrate content to new documents.

However, if it is just one bullet that has gone awry, you should be able to
reset it in each document--but also edit and save the custom template
document.

Locate the Bullets button on the Formatting toolbar--it has the Bullets
On/Off (Shift+F12)--tool-tip.
Click the triangle to open the panel, and then click on "More Bullets..."

On the "Bullets" tab one of the Solid circular previews (small or large) is
probably selected--make a note of which.
Select the "Options" tab. Level shuld be 1-10, or possibly each level has a
different style. Number & Character styles should be bullet/bullets.

The dialog you are interested in is "Character:" and its "Select" button. It
will launch the "Special Character dialog"

Open it and see which glyph has been assigned to your #10 ball. The errant
codepoint is probably U+277F or U+2793 from the Dingbats block, either way
in the

The solid small circular bullet should be set to Unicode BMP U+2022 "bullet"
from the General Punctuation block.
The solid large circular bullet should be set to Unicode BMP U+25CF "black
circle" from the Geometric Shapes block.

Set that back to the default and that should clear the issue with each
document. Do the same with your template .ott, and any new documents you
create with it should have the correct default.

Good luck and post back results.

Stuart

#4

V Stuart Foote wrote

@E.W.

The heavy handed way to clear this would be to rename your user profile
and start clean, recreate your template and migrate content to new
documents.

However, if it is just one bullet that has gone awry, you should be able
to reset it in each document--but also edit and save the custom template
document.

Locate the Bullets button on the Formatting toolbar--it has the Bullets
On/Off (Shift+F12)--tool-tip.
Click the triangle to open the panel, and then click on "More Bullets..."

On the "Bullets" tab one of the Solid circular previews (small or large)
is probably selected--make a note of which.
Select the "Options" tab. Level shuld be 1-10, or possibly each level has
a different style. Number & Character styles should be bullet/bullets.

The dialog you are interested in is "Character:" and its "Select" button.
It will launch the "Special Character dialog"

Open it and see which glyph has been assigned to your #10 ball. The
errant codepoint is probably U+277F or U+2793 from the Dingbats block,
either way in the

The solid small circular bullet should be set to Unicode BMP U+2022
"bullet" from the General Punctuation block.
The solid large circular bullet should be set to Unicode BMP U+25CF "black
circle" from the Geometric Shapes block.

Set that back to the default and that should clear the issue with each
document. Do the same with your template .ott, and any new documents you
create with it should have the correct default.

Good luck and post back results.

Stuart

Stuart,
When I open the bullet list tab, and click more, the 10 ball symbol is the
first glyph and highlighted. The second glyph is the large black ball. 10
ball replaced the small black ball (default?).
When I open the Special Characters window, I see a black dot and it's
Unicode BMP is U+2022 It is not the 10 ball. I don't know where it's
coming from , the Font: is Segoe UI and Subset: is General
Punctuation............. the Insert button is greyed out.

Under Geometric Shapes.... Segoe UI and the glyph is set to U+25CF.
There are numbers in black circles, but there is no 10. The numbers only go
up to 9 in the black ball and there is no 0 either.

I have found out I don't have Open Symbol font in my system font files. (If
that matters at this point.) I have been trying to change the LO bulleted
list font to Segoe UI Symbol, but it changes back to Segoe UI, when I open
and close LO.

I'll go see if I can find the Open Symbol font from Microsoft..........
thank you for your help,

I'll let you know,
E.W.

#5

E.W. wrote

Under Geometric Shapes.... Segoe UI and the glyph is set to U+25CF.
There are numbers in black circles, but there is no 10. The numbers only
go up to 9 in the black ball and there is no 0 either.

The fact that the glyph for the bullet is set to U+25CF is showing Segoe UI
but not displaying as the "black circle" glyph is odd--what font is
displaying?

Bablemap is a useful tool for sorting out where on a code page and from
which font glyphs are coming from.
http://www.babelstone.co.uk/Software/BabelMap.html

I have found out I don't have Open Symbol font in my system font files.
(If that matters at this point.) I have been trying to change the LO
bulleted list font to Segoe UI Symbol, but it changes back to Segoe UI,
when I open and close LO.

I'll go see if I can find the Open Symbol font from Microsoft..........
thank you for your help,

OpenSymbol is not a Microsoft provided font, rather it is deployed by
LibreOffice, and should be installed if not present. Simple to extract it
from the LO installer (msiexec.exe /a install into a temp folder, there will
be a Fonts directory with all LO deployed fonts) check for any missing and
manually install if needed.

DejaVu, Gentium, Liberation, Linux Biolinum all have pretty good coverage in
the Unicode BMP, but are missing the SEP as does Microsoft's Arial Unicode
MS. The Segoe family being their most complete Unicode codepoint coverage.

An alternative to Segoe, and a font with more complete Unicode 8 coverage,
including the SEP 1F300 - 1F600 codepoints we've started to use for Emoji
support, is George Douros's Symbola -- several of the Linux deploy it.

Found here: http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/

That, with an install of BableMap should be of some help.

#6

Follow Up...

I uninstalled my version of Libre Office and reinstalled the latest version.
My fonts and bulleted list is working as it should now.
Thanks to everyone, especially Stuart, for all their help.
E.W.