Bug 90147

Summary: FORMATTING: Footnotes: not possible to start list with bullets and numbering on first line
Product: LibreOffice Reporter: Gordo <gordon1drake>
Component: WriterAssignee: Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status: NEW ---    
Severity: enhancement CC: cno, ilmari.lauhakangas
Priority: medium    
Version: Inherited From OOo   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Bug Blocks: 103164    

Description Gordo 2015-03-21 16:29:56 UTC 
1. New Text Document.
2. Type “test”, Return, “another test”, and Return.
3. Place cursor after “test” on first line.
4. Insert → Footnote/Endnote and accept default.
5. In footnote, type “You can have a numbered list in a footnote:” and Return.
6. Still in footnote, type “test”, Return, and “test 2”.
7. Select “test” and “test 2”.
8. Numbering On from toolbar.
9. Place cursor after “test” on second line.
10. Insert → Footnote/Endnote and accept default.
11. In footnote, type “But the first line of this footnote was included in the selection when converting to a numbered list:” and Return.
12. Still in footnote, type “another test”, Return, and “another test 2”.
13. Select all three lines in second footnote.
14. Numbering On from toolbar.
Note:
Numbering continues on from last footnote and includes the second footnote number as if it is number 3.  Footnote number is okay but indented.
15. Place cursor on first line of second footnote.
16. Numbering Off from toolbar.
Note:
Footnote number is no longer indented.  Numbering continues on from last footnote.
Result:
If the user is not paying attention then they could find themselves in a muddle.

It is also possible to Move Up one of the numbered items from one footnote to another.
1. Place cursor in second footnote in first numbered item--”another test”.
2. Click Move Up from toolbar.
At this point you can use Move Down, but if you start in the first footnote and place the cursor in the last numbered item, then Move Down doesn't do anything.

Summary:
In a footnote, it is not possible to have a numbered list starting on the first line.  Doing so indents the footnote number.

Footnotes be thinking they special and have boundaries, but bullets and numbering be like, "you ain't all that, you're still one of us."

Version: 4.4.1.2
Build ID: 45e2de17089c24a1fa810c8f975a7171ba4cd432
Comment 1 Buovjaga 2015-03-25 16:01:35 UTC 
(In reply to Gordo from comment #0)
> Footnotes be thinking they special and have boundaries, but bullets and
> numbering be like, "you ain't all that, you're still one of us."

Reproduced. Could hear the voices of the numbering and that was the literal transcription.

Win 7 Pro 64-bit, LibO Version: 4.4.1.2
Build ID: 45e2de17089c24a1fa810c8f975a7171ba4cd432
Locale: fi_FI
Comment 2 Cor Nouws 2015-04-11 14:05:08 UTC 
This is inherited from OpenOffice.org.
In 3.3.0 the indent behavior of the first line is different, but starting a list there fails too
Comment 3 tommy27 2016-04-16 07:24:26 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 4 Cor Nouws 2017-02-18 11:41:13 UTC 
still the case in Version: 5.4.0.0.alpha0+
Build ID: d3293c7173210e0246d0dc29377f687f41588da2
CPU Threads: 4; OS Version: Linux 4.8; UI Render: default; VCL: gtk2; 
TinderBox: Linux-rpm_deb-x86_64@70-TDF, Branch:master, Time: 2017-02-11_00:45:56
Locale: nl-NL (nl_NL.UTF-8); Calc: group