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Type: New Feature
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Status: Applied
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Priority: Minor
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Resolution: Fixed
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Affects Version/s: ODF 1.2
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Fix Version/s: ODF 1.4
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Component/s: Presentation
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Labels:None
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Proposal:
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Resolution:
PowerPoint allows, that a presentation starts with number 0. The start value of slide numbering is given by the attribute firstSlideNum of element <p:presentation> in OOXML. Even negative values are allowed in OOXML.
<xsd:attribute name="firstSlideNum" type="xsd:int" use="optional" default="1"/>
The corresponding attribute in ODF is 20.258 style:first-page-number. Here we have the description text
The value of this attribute can be an integer or continue.
But in the schema there is
<attribute name="style:first-page-number"> <choice> <ref name="positiveInteger"/> <value>continue</value> </choice> </attribute>
So my suggestion is to allow at least the value 0 too. LibreOffice has not yet implemented the attribute style:first-page-number, but there exists an enhancement request about more flexible page numbering https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=115611 . I have no strong opinion, whether negative values should be allowed. For interoperability with pptx format of PowerPoint or SoftMaker, only value 0 is needed.
We have made a similar change in https://issues.oasis-open.org/browse/OFFICE-3923 for the attribute style:page-number, which is used in text documents.