XPost: alt.os.linux.ubuntu, alt.os.linux.mageia, alt.os.linux.pclinuxos   
   From: nospam@needed.invalid   
      
   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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