Subject: Re: Document format: Can I remove list-decimal from block-level properties?
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Wed Oct 17 2001 - 20:19:01 CDT
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Matti Picus wrote:
> I propose to change the document format.
> Currently the following are block-level properties useful for formatting a
> list label: list-delim: a string, where %L stands for the list counter;
> list-decimal: a string;
>
> "list-decimal" is never modified as far as I can tell, and causes at least
> one user/developer to scratch his balding head as he peruses the
> code. Removing it will remove at least a dozen cases and if{} constructs
> cluttering the code, as well as solve some logical problems as I revamp the
> list-delim property.
>
> I wish to remove list-decimal from the list attributes. I am able to open a
> document with the list-decimal property missing in earlier versions of
> AbiWord, so I am reasonably confident (within a donut or two) that
> documents created after the change will still be useful with previously
> released versions.
>
> This is a small change in many files. If the change is not protested, I
> will commit it Friday morning GMT.
>
I'm definately not in favour of this. list-decimal does something
different to list-delim. If you remove it fromm the block properties then
we cannot recover it's settings if we undo a deleted list.
Martin
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