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  Lists in LibreOffice write pinnerite <pinnerite@gmail.com> - 2026-01-16 17:09 +0000
    Re: Lists in LibreOffice write Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2026-01-16 09:22 -0800
    Re: Lists in LibreOffice write Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2026-01-16 18:06 -0500
    Re: Lists in LibreOffice write "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> - 2026-01-17 12:18 -0500
      Re: Lists in LibreOffice write William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2026-01-17 19:31 +0000

#46566 — Lists in LibreOffice write

In LibreOffice Write I often prepare subjects for U3A current affairs meetings (It's a UK thing). The format is:

1. Item A
2  Item B

My preference is for the numbers to be in Heebo (regular) but the Item descriptions in Heebo Black.

What is happens is mixture of some numbers in Heebo and others in Heebo Black.
Attempts to recruit ChatGPT were inconclusive.
Although its suggestions caused me to get everything in Heebo but I coukld hand edit every subject name to Heebo Black but it is tedious.

For what it u=is worthm MSOffice was no better.

Does anyone on this group have any suggestions?

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#46567

pinnerite wrote:
> 1. Item A
> 2  Item B
> 
> My preference is for the numbers to be in Heebo (regular) but the Item descriptions in Heebo Black.

I looked at the face in Adobe; Black is *extremely* heavy there, where 
the series runs thin, light, regular, medium, bold, extra bold, black.

I'm wondering if black is 'too much' in such as the free version of the 
font.  Personally my 'guess' is that bold would be enough of a 
difference from regular to suit you, and more likely to be 'correct' by 
staying away from 'extremism'.

-- 
Mike Easter

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#46568

On Fri, 1/16/2026 12:09 PM, pinnerite wrote:
> In LibreOffice Write I often prepare subjects for U3A current affairs meetings (It's a UK thing). The format is:
> 
> 1. Item A
> 2  Item B
> 
> My preference is for the numbers to be in Heebo (regular) but the Item descriptions in Heebo Black.
> 
> What is happens is mixture of some numbers in Heebo and others in Heebo Black.
> Attempts to recruit ChatGPT were inconclusive.
> Although its suggestions caused me to get everything in Heebo but I coukld hand edit every subject name to Heebo Black but it is tedious.
> 
> For what it u=is worthm MSOffice was no better.
> 
> Does anyone on this group have any suggestions?
> 

OK, so you know if you were writing a book or a manual,
there would be Header1, Header2, Header3 and each "Style"
has "counters" that count Chapters, Sections, Subsections
and so on. "See my 7.1.3.5 for more details" equals four counters.

You would not want to use a "counter" which already exists.
You also need two styles, one style that "jams the counter
to 1". And the second style would be counter=counter+1.

You would need to define an "Initial Font" for part of it
and a "font to be used for the rest of the text following
the initial font".

When you get to the end of the numbered styles, you could
as the user, apply a Paragraph type which uses yet another font.

Or if you are lazy or sloppy (like me), you would go around
wiping random chunks of text and "Apply Font", which is a
font override applied to a base paragraph style. In the time it
would take me to research the issue, I could just wipe the
bits needed a different font, be done and dusted. It depends
on the scale of the project, as to whether "good work habits"
are required "-)

Once you think in terms of generalized desktop publishing ideas,
and after you peruse the actual menus in LO Writer ("Styles"),
I think you can think of a series of clever questions to ask
your AI. I'm pretty sure the AI can cook up a wonderfully complex
style for you to use. Just make sure the counter is kept separate
from the default styles, and, that you have two styles. One a
template for the other. The first style resets the counter to 1,
the second style just increments the counter (many of the details
can be copied from one style to another new style). I don't know if
you can craft a context-aware style that can "do the right
thing" with the counter, without being told.

Also, if you open the LO equivalent of PowerPoint, the "styles" defined
in there will do things that are a bit closer to your requirements.
Perhaps a style already exists for a three bullet point slide
that ends in "Profit!" :-) Transferring the style design to the
Writer then, would be another way to get the job done, without
a lot of "details to be determined". It would be silly, if the
Styles design was not a common feature between tools (at a guess).

If you can't figure it out (been there), just wipe and fix them
manually.

   Paul

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#46570

On Fri, 16 Jan 2026 12:09:56 -0500, pinnerite <pinnerite@gmail.com> wrote:

> In LibreOffice Write I often prepare subjects for U3A current affairs meetings (It's a UK thing). The format is:
>
> 1. Item A
> 2  Item B
>
> My preference is for the numbers to be in Heebo (regular) but the Item descriptions in Heebo Black.
>
> What is happens is mixture of some numbers in Heebo and others in Heebo Black.
> Attempts to recruit ChatGPT were inconclusive.
> Although its suggestions caused me to get everything in Heebo but I coukld hand edit every subject name to Heebo Black but it is tedious.
>
> For what it u=is worthm MSOffice was no better.
>
> Does anyone on this group have any suggestions?

If you want to treat the numbers and descriptions as columns, each with it's own formatting, use
libreoffice calc, not writer.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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#46571

On 2026-01-17, David W. Hodgins <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Jan 2026 12:09:56 -0500, pinnerite <pinnerite@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> In LibreOffice Write I often prepare subjects for U3A current affairs meetings (It's a UK thing). The format is:
>>
>> 1. Item A
>> 2  Item B
>>
>> My preference is for the numbers to be in Heebo (regular) but the Item descriptions in Heebo Black.
>>
>> What is happens is mixture of some numbers in Heebo and others in Heebo Black.

It is not clear if you are generating this by hand (Ie a human typing it
in) or automatically.
By hand, remember that when you change to Heebo black, it remains that
way for each new letter that you type. If you go back to put the number
there and move your cursor, it could well change from regular to black.

So, go back to each number, select it (left click cursor moved over it)
and choose regular.

>> Attempts to recruit ChatGPT were inconclusive.
>> Although its suggestions caused me to get everything in Heebo but I coukld hand edit every subject name to Heebo Black but it is tedious.

Since there is presumably far more stuff in black than regular, just
type it all in black and then select the numbers and change them to
regular. How many numbers do you have? 3, 10, 4987564? While the first
two are hardly tedious, the latter could well be.

You could probably set up a two column table, with the first column
being the numbers and the second that text. Then slect the first column
and change its font.


>>
>> For what it u=is worthm MSOffice was no better.
>>
>> Does anyone on this group have any suggestions?
>
> If you want to treat the numbers and descriptions as columns, each with it's own formatting, use
> libreoffice calc, not writer. 

Writer with tables will do it as well.

>
> Regards, Dave Hodgins

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