Paragraph styles in lists

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#1

Hi.
I must be missing something obvious, but how do I apply to/retain a paragraph style to a list.
I have defined a paragraph style I want and a list style I want but when I apply the list style to the paragraph the paragraph style looses the setting for "After text".

I can re-apply the setting with direct formatting (right click - paragraph) but that defeats the purpose of using styles.

steve

#2

Hi.
I must be missing something obvious, but how do I apply to/retain a
paragraph style to a list.
I have defined a paragraph style I want and a list style I want but when I
apply the list style to the paragraph the paragraph style looses the
setting for "After text".

List styles get control over left indent, overwriting any value set by the
paragraph style, so if for any reason you want to keep the indent of the
paragraph style you need to modify the list style to mimic that indent.
I've wrote an article about alignment on lists here

https://frommindtotype.wordpress.com/2018/01/08/numbered-and-bulleted-lists-alignment-on-libreoffice-writer/

Regards,
Ricardo

#3

Thanks, nice article.
It is the right indent that I am having trouble with, referred to as "After text" in paragraph style.
steve

#4

Hi Steve,

Hi.
I must be missing something obvious, but how do I apply to/retain a
paragraph style to a list.
I have defined a paragraph style I want and a list style I want but when
I apply the list style to the paragraph the paragraph style looses the
setting for "After text".

You miss nothing. It is bug https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83532

Besides that, if you want to bind paragraph and list together, then select the list style in the Numbering tab of the paragraph style dialog.

Kind regards
Regina

#5

Thanks Regina. I have bound paragraph and list together as you suggest, but that is not a fix for the bug. I searched in bugzilla first but my search did not find this bug.

#6

Thanks, nice article.
It is the right indent that I am having trouble with, referred to as
"After text" in paragraph style.

Ups! Mental note: "do not try to answer complex questions after midnight."
Sorry!