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dynamic

On one hand, I think I get the motivation behind arguments for wymiwyg (what you mean is what you get) and letting stylesheets take care of appearance.

On the other hand, I feel like over half of the software out there has default styles for bullet points that look like absolute shit.

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This is what the Outlook web client does when I try starting an outline with capital Roman numerals and let it auto-detect how to enumerate subitems.

A bulleted list with with the following sequence of itemization symbols: 1) Uppercase Roman numerals, 2) Lowercase Roman alphabet, 3) Lowercase Roman numerals, 4) Arabic numerals, 5) Lowercase Roman alphabet again.
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A bulleted list in Outlook's web client:

A bulleted list with Outlook's default settings. Bullet formatting of desending levels is: 1) midsized filled circle, 2) midsized empty circle, 3) large stocky filled rectangle, 4) midsized filled circle again
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Outines in Canvas (the course software my university uses).

A bulleted listed with descending bullet formats as: 1) mid-sized filled circle, 2) midsized empty circle, 3) large filled square, 4) large filled square again
An outline using Arabic numerals with dots for all levels.
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LibeOffice, I love you, but are you on drugs?

The bullets and numbering dialog from LibreOffice writer, with the outline tab selected. There are eight choices. Choice 1 symbols: 1) Arabic numeral with dot, 2) Arabic numeral with dot followed by second Arabic numeral with dot, 3) lowercase Roman alphabet with close-parentheses, 4) filled round bullet, 5) filled round bullet. Choice 2 symbols: 1) Arabic numeral with dot, 2) lowercase Roman alphabet with close-parentheses, 3) filled round bullet, 4) filled round bullet, 5) another filled bullet Choice 3 symbols: 1) Arabic numeral with dot, 2) lowercase Roman alphabet *in* parentheses, 3) lowercase Roman numeral, 4) uppercase Roman alphabet, 5) filled round bullet Choice 4 symbols: Arabic numerals at all levels Choice 5 symbols: 1) Capital Roman numeral, 2) capital Roman alphabet (so far so good), 3) lowercase Roman numeral (um), 4) lowercase Roman alphabet with close-parentheses, 5) filled round bullet Choice 6 symbols: 1) Capital Roman alphabet, 2) capital Roman numeral, 3) lowercase Roman alphabet, 4) lowercase Roman numeral, 5) filled round bullet Choice 7 symbols: 1) Arabic numeral with dot, 2) Arabic numeral with dot followed by another Arabic numeral with a dot, 3) pattern continues with three Arabic numerals separated with dots, 4) and so on Choice 8 symbols: 1) Cool looking arrow shaped like a bicolor concave kite, 2) large ugly sans serif arrow like from an equation, 3) diamond shaped bullet with close-parentheses (???), 4) round filled bullet
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Meanwhile, Beamer has a bizarre obsession with putting enumerated list numerals *inside* bullets. I think there are themes that don't do this, but they are hard to find.

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@dynamic Let's play name the drug they were on when they came up with each of these systems 😂

I'd guess the bottom right is DMT and the one immediately to its left is LSD (because tracers).

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@GuerillaOntologist

Heh, the second from the bottom right (the seventh option I described in my alt-text) is the only LibreOffice outline option that I found remotely sane.

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