In your case, don’t mix document structure and appearance. Thus Content 1 can be configured to center the heading of Heading 1 if it relates to a book and all other Content n left aligned for chapters and sections ( Heading n n>1). All Heading n are collected to build the TOC and the layout for the levels in the TOC are controlled by Contents n style family.

It would call for particular numbering structure but it is perfectly legitimate. One reason I could see for Heading 2 as chapter style would be using Heading 1 for a more global structure than chapter, like “Book” in a complex document about various semi-independent topics. But this is advance Writer use and I don’t think you’re presently ready for that.Īs Writer is released, Heading 1 is intended for chapters (as remarked) with the rest of the family for deeper headers (sub-chapters, sections, …). You have to go through this pain if you add your own outline styles, for example if you need different sequences like numbers for main text chapters and letters for appendices. Doing so in this specialised dialog avoids having to fiddle with the individual styles of the family, which is really inconvenient and not user-friendly if you revamp your numbering. you also set the relationship between levels here (mainly the number of components and the style of these in the numbering). The special aspect of the family is managed through Tools> Outline Numbering (or Chapter Numbering in recent versions) as a whole, i.e. This explains why the Outline level is grayed out. Since they are a bit special, as mentioned above, LO Writer forbids to create a mess through the style settings. Note you can define your own paragraph styles to participate in outline numbering, but those are offered “out-of-the-box” for this purpose, without the need of defining ones.

Internally LO Writer knows they are intended for outline headings. It is not made of “ordinary” paragraph styles. The Heading n style family is a bit special.

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