Writer, Basic: How to get the numbering label of a paragraph

[aharnack]

Writer: How to get the numbering label of a paragraph from within an OpenOffice Basic macro?

I'm iterating through the paragraphs of a Writer document and search for list numbering by checking for numbering rules and then possible outline numbering, i.e. something like:

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	oParaEnum = ThisComponent.getText().createEnumeration()
	Do While oParaEnum.hasMoreElements()
		oPara = oParaEnum.nextElement()
		If oPara.supportsService("com.sun.star.text.Paragraph") Then
			If Not isEmpty(oPara.NumberingRules) Then
				If Not oPara.NumberingRules.NumberingIsOutline Then
					REM handle list item
					...
				End If
			End If
		End If
	Loop

Is there a way to retrieve from within that loop the label the list item will get? It seems possible to get the bullet char code for a bullet list or prefix and suffix of the number in case of a numbered list, but not the number itself, neither as integer value nor formatted as string of the appropriate type (arabic, roman, letter etc.) nor the complete label (prefix+number+suffix).

I noticed the label is part of the String property, but I only want the label. (OK, I guess I could iterate through the text content, assemble a text content string and subtract that from the one I get by getString(), but somehow I'm hoping to find a simpler way.)

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Andreas

OpenOffice 2.4 on Windows XP
OpenOffice 2.3 on Suse 10.3

[j.kornelsn]

From my answer at
https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question ... -id-142895:

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oCurs.ListLabelString