Re: letters as numbers in OOo 1.9.x

[Leston Buell <bulbul at fizzylogic dot com>]

This bug i have filed on this issue is here:

<http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=53465>

Bulbul

Leston Buell wrote:
> There is a way in OpenOffice.org 1.9.x to insert the page number field 
> as Arabic letters rather than as numbers. This is great, but it doesn't 
> behave the way i expected it to. To my knowledge, when you use Arabic 
> numbers in the same way that in English we use Roman numerals (such as 
> to number items in a list), you don't use the regular alphabetic order:
>    alif baa' taa' thaa' jiim...
> Rather, you use the "abgad hawwaz" order:
>    alif baa' jiim daal haa'...
> (Those of you who know the song can sing along with me: "...shakl 
> il-'ustaaz ba'a munsagimun... :-) )
>
> Anyway, this numbering feature in OOo uses the regular alphabetic order 
> rather than the abgad hawwaz order. I am planning on filing a bug on 
> this behavior, but i wanted to air the idea hear first, just in case 
> this is correct usage for some purpose or in some country.