Issue 91143 - Greek Character Numbering style in "Bullets and Numbering"
Summary: Greek Character Numbering style in "Bullets and Numbering"
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: formatting (show other issues)
Version: OOo 2.4.1
Hardware: All All
: P3 Trivial with 15 votes (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: AOO issues mailing list
QA Contact:
URL: http://user.services.openoffice.org/e...
Keywords: oooqa
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2008-06-27 15:13 UTC by johntolkien
Modified: 2017-05-20 10:45 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

See Also:
Issue Type: PATCH
Latest Confirmation in: ---
Developer Difficulty: ---


Attachments
First version of a patch (against DEV300_m51) (11.97 KB, text/plain)
2009-07-11 17:43 UTC, pktoss
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Description johntolkien 2008-06-27 15:13:30 UTC
It would be nice if it was possible to use Greek Characters in the Numbering
styles of "Bullets and Numbering". (Please consider consulting a native Greek
speaker for the order of the characters which is to be used for such a numbering
style.)
Comment 1 eric.savary 2008-06-28 08:32:41 UTC
Reassigned
Comment 2 jean_michael 2009-06-17 15:48:16 UTC
*** Issue 91143 has been confirmed by votes. ***
Comment 3 pktoss 2009-07-11 17:43:02 UTC
Created attachment 63482 [details]
First version of a patch (against DEV300_m51)
Comment 4 pktoss 2009-07-11 17:43:35 UTC
Here is a patch that implements this functionality. It has had some review and
testing but more comments are always welcome
Comment 5 pkst 2009-07-11 18:10:18 UTC
Nice..congrats for the patch
Comment 6 dpanop 2009-07-11 20:18:41 UTC
how can someone install this patch????
Comment 7 pktoss 2009-07-11 20:33:41 UTC
It should apply cleanly to the m51 developer milestone from openoffice org svn
(it will probably apply cleanly to m52 too).

i.e., patch -Np1 -i ../0001-Support-for-greek-numerals.patch
and then build openoffice.org from source.
Comment 8 wayland 2010-03-20 07:53:35 UTC
I don't seem to have permissions for this, but wouldn't marking this as a
"PATCH" instead of an "ENHANCEMENT" increase its chances of getting applied?  Or
is that against some kind of policy?  
Comment 9 pktoss 2010-03-20 09:55:06 UTC
Well, I admit I don't know how to do this either. This field is not editable
even when I 'm logged in. 
Comment 10 lohmaier 2010-03-20 18:37:52 UTC
Neither of the authors mentioned in the patch is listed on 
http://www.openoffice.org/copyright/copyrightapproved.html - i.e. no signed 
copyright approval (one can argue whether it is needed for that more or less 
small patch)

And what about the change to sw/source/ui/misc/numberingtypelistbox.src ? Messes 
up the encoding it seems...

Anyway - setting type to PATCH
Comment 11 eric.savary 2010-03-20 18:45:09 UTC
@MBA: please check if this patch submission is valid or can be validated. Thank you!
Comment 12 michael.ruess 2010-03-20 20:13:18 UTC
Adding OD to cc list as long as this issue refers to "Numbering and Bullets"
feature.
Comment 13 Mathias_Bauer 2010-05-19 11:06:18 UTC
@pktoss: did you read the comment from cloph?

To allow us to accept your patch, we need a copyright assignment for it. Please
have a look at

http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/SCA

and act accordingly.
Comment 14 johntolkien 2010-11-05 09:30:20 UTC
Hello,
I was just wondering, if it is possible to finally include this patch in
OpenOffice.org. I just downloaded the 3.3.0RC3 and to my surprise this still is
not in the product, even though from what I read here, it seems to be
technically solved. I know the Greek market is probably not exactly the biggest,
but I don't really understand why it would take one and a half year after a
solution is provided, to include the patch in the product.
As for the licensing, is the code really so different from the implementation
for Russian or Serbian (Unfortunately, I am not capable to judge this)

I apologize if any of this sounds rude, which was definitively not my intention.
Comment 15 pktoss 2010-11-05 20:11:06 UTC
On my end I did everything I could (provide the patch and the copyright 
assignment). If I can help in any other way please let me know.
Comment 16 wayland 2010-11-05 22:55:36 UTC
Did you get one from Diomidis Spinellis too?  I've just sent him an e-mail
asking for him to do this.  
Comment 17 stx123 2010-11-06 18:25:14 UTC
Thanks for moving this forward. The SCA from Diomidis Spinellis is on file now.
Comment 18 stx123 2010-11-06 18:33:34 UTC
Thanks to "pktoss" too for the earlier work on the formalities (SCA on file) and
especially on the patch.
Comment 19 simos.bugzilla 2010-11-12 09:14:20 UTC
I noticed an issue with the patch.
Currently the list looks as

...
ε. test.
στ.      test.
ζ. test.
...

That is, there is a longer space between the Greek number and the text, for
certain numbers. With Greek small letters, this appears for the 'στ' number.
With capital letters, this appears more often, without a discernible pattern.

(Compiled on LibreOffice 3.3)
Comment 20 pktoss 2011-03-11 16:26:26 UTC
(In reply to comment #19)
> I noticed an issue with the patch.
> Currently the list looks as
> 
> ...
> ε. test.
> στ.      test.
> ζ. test.
> ...

As discussed also in the greek libreoffice list,
this problem is unrelated to greek, I see this
in english numbering as well when it moves from
one to 2 letters.

I think the best way to avoid this problem in
Libre Office is to make the bullet numbering
"right justified".
Comment 21 Rob Weir 2013-03-11 15:04:45 UTC
I'm adding this comment to all open issues with Issue Type == PATCH.  We have 220 such issues, many of them quite old.  I apologize for that.  

We need your help in prioritizing which patches should be integrated into our next release, Apache OpenOffice 4.0.

If you have submitted a patch and think it is applicable for AOO 4.0, please respond with a comment to let us know.

On the other hand, if the patch is no longer relevant, please let us know that as well.

If you have any general questions or want to discuss this further, please send a note to our dev mailing list:  dev@openoffice.apache.org

Thanks!

-Rob
Comment 22 wayland 2013-06-25 10:51:24 UTC
I think this is still relevant.
Comment 23 Darv Dombach 2013-09-13 10:44:25 UTC
(In reply to Rob Weir from comment #21)
> I'm adding this comment to all open issues with Issue Type == PATCH.  We
> have 220 such issues, many of them quite old.  I apologize for that.  
> 
> We need your help in prioritizing which patches should be integrated into
> our next release, Apache OpenOffice 4.0.
> 
> If you have submitted a patch and think it is applicable for AOO 4.0, please
> respond with a comment to let us know.
> 
> On the other hand, if the patch is no longer relevant, please let us know
> that as well.
> 
> If you have any general questions or want to discuss this further, please
> send a note to our dev mailing list:  dev@openoffice.apache.org
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -Rob

I agree it is still relevant
Comment 24 Marcus 2017-05-20 10:45:27 UTC
Reset the assignee to the default "issues@openoffice.apache.org".