https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160686
Bug ID: 160686
Summary: "Left Page" and "Right Page" are nonsensical and
should be removed
Product: LibreOffice
Version: Inherited From OOo
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: Writer
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Writer's Styles sidebar has two page styles named "Right Page" and "Left Page",
which are also one of the styles in the default-visible list when creating a
new document.
A "Right Page" (resp. "Left Page") can mean any number of things:
* A page with an RTL (resp. LTR) default for paragraph styles
* A page with right-aligned (resp. left-aligned) text by default
* A page to the right (resp. left) of the spine in a book-like document
* A page with larger margin on the right (resp. left)
In fact, there are even more notions of what such a page might be (e.g. it was
suggested to me that a right page is odd-numbered, and an even page is
even-numbered; or was it the other way around?)
At any rate, looking at their actual definitions - these two alternate, i.e.
the style for a page following a left page is a right page.
These styles don't inherit the default page style, nor any other common styles
- as page style inheritance is not yet supported (that is bug 41316). So, they
are not versions of the Default Page Style, with one being "left" and the other
being "right", whatever that means.
Remember, that the mechanism for distinguishing features of the page between
pages to the left-of-spine or right-of-spine is supposed to be part of a single
page style; and indeed, it kind of is: Within the Page Style dialog, under the
Page tab, we have a "Page layout" option, which has a "Right and Left" option
(also poorly named). When you choose it, you can define a gutter, which
alternates sides when considering the page itself, but is always next to the
spine when considering the orientation of pages in 3D-space.
To the extent that we want to differentiate more left-of-spine/right-of-spine
behavior, we should do that in the dialog itself. And if we just want to allow
arbitrary changes alternating between consecutive pages, then - we should name
such a pair of styles differently (not "Left" and "Right"), and not have them
as a one of the default choices. In fact, we should probably not bother, since
interested users can use the "Next Style" mechanism to create such pairs
themselves.
As an RTL user and RTL QA contributor, I assure you that this two-page-style
mechanism is _not_ in wide use by RTL document authors, and my guess is that it
is hardly ever used by anyone.
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