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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jun 12 03:11:15 -0700 2006 ------- This issue definitely should be reopened and be reconsidered thoroughly. It is quite unacceptable that a master document cannot inherit a change in page style set from within the subdocument using direct paragraph formatting (or inserting a manual page break with change in page style). In simple language: it is quite unacceptable that a user cannot easily have a few landscape pages in a subdocument that otherwise is portrait. The 2 solutions that were given in reality are workarounds for this issue, the one uglier than the other. "Solution 1": Why would a user need to split one or a few pages out of a subdocument just for formatting? What if the number of landscape pages (for tables) scattered over the subdoc are numerous, say 5 landscape pages in a 20 page portrait document. Create 11 subdocs for content that really belongs in one document (say a chapter?) "Solution 2" is the ugliest of all and defeats the entire purpose of a master doc. It suggests to make the subdoc editable in the master doc and apply the formatting from within the master doc. Obviously, as soon as the subdoc is updated, the changes will be lost again. Please let us call such suggestions "workarounds", not "solutions. The "style collision" argument is invalid. The current behaviour is that only styles from the master document control formatting. Thus, there can be no 'collision'. A style that does not yet exist in the master doc, is imported. A style that already exists in the master doc stays unchanged, regardless the definition of that style in the subdoc. Thus, there is no possibility for "style collisions". It is a very well designed behaviour: documents will obtain a consistent look when imported into a master doc, even if their style definitions differ greatly. The fundamental issue here is that a page break with change in page style is ignored in the master document. I cannot think of any reason why page breaks with change in page style should not be imported into the master doc, considering the remarks above. Please consider these remarks carefully. If no stronger argument can be given, this issue should be reopened as an enhancement of the current behaviour. Issue 8449 fundamentally also relates to this problem, and should probably be redirected here. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
