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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jul 21 09:38:51 +0000
2008 -------
Page numbering is hard to use in OOo and anything that goes beyond the vary
basics is much too complex for any real life use.
I therefore use with OOo only basic page numbering - but even this could be
improved and made more accessible. Improving page numbering handling is highly
desired.
However, my view is that current page numbering scheme is flawed and the only
way for a massive improvement is the implementation of cascading-stylesheets
styles, i.e.: one page/paragraph/... derives its style from a previous style and
adds/changes some options of the previous style. Howeverm this css-like
inheritance is slightly more complex than the true css, because elements will
cross-inherit back and forth.
Of course, these styles need to be accessible in a trivial way, so that any user
with NO style experience at all just hits a button (which needs to be intuitive
enough and easily found), and voila, the most complex page numbering is
generated.
In this way, it should be possible to:
- extend a paragraph style with an option to start numbering on the page
the paragraph will be displayed
-- any previous pages won't be numbered
-- page inherits numbering property from this paragraph style
-- rationale: documents may contain pages that are NOT numbered
--- first page: numbered, BUT numbering not displayed
--- "introductory pages": not numbered at all
-- paragraph-style numbering options:
-- numbering-start: numbering will start on the page the paragraph is
displayed
-- numbering-offset: the numbering will start with this number,
not necessarily with '1'
add option yo start with (previous number + 1)
-- numbering-format: the way the page number is displayed
(header/footer, number format, ...)
-- numbering-off: this will be the last page to be numbered
(not very sure about this option)
-- numbering-style-next: apply this numbering-style to next page
[with easy implementation of lefy/right
numbering schemes]
So, the numbering style is a style both of the paragraph and page. It is really
tightly bound with paragraphs, because the user usually wants to first number a
page on which some particular text was written. In the same way, page-breaks
should be really a style feature of both paragraphs and pages.
Other objects, like frames/sections/ ... might inherit these numbering styles,
too (as requested in various issues and sometimes needed in complex layouts).
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