https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160686
--- Comment #28 from David <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Eyal Rozenberg from comment #26) > My point is, that when one actually spells out a supposed use case for these > styles - either the use case is reasonable/common, but then - the pair of > styles don't fit the use case on a closer inspection; or the use case is > convoluted and contrived, in which case it does not merit to have a pair of > styles pre-defined for it. The first problem you're having is that you consider this a pair that is necessarily designed to be used together in the same document. I don't recall anywhere in the documentation that states that they are a pair that MUST be used together or that this is even a suggested best practice. But one case that I can think of where a person might want to use both the Left Page and Right Page styles together would maybe be in an art book or some other book where there might be a picture or a diagram on the left-hand page and a one page description or explanation on the right-hand page. The author would likely want these to be viewed together on opposing pages and not have one item on the back side of the page and the other on the front side. But otherwise, to accommodate multiple pages of text, it would probably be best to use mirrored pages after the initial page. > With David's use case, it has been the second option: As we examined the > behavior of the two page styles, and David verified that this behavior is > his use case (well, I'll take him at his word anyway) - it became clear it > is a niche and rather weird use case, with inconsistently-styled blank-page > inserts, sometimes without the user having requested them. Niche? It is hardly an unheard of practice to have chapters begin on the right-hand side of an open book, but how often do you find books that have the title page, the first chapter, or an appendix or index or other types of sections begin on the left-hand page? And if the book is for a RTL language that opens a book in the opposite direction, then simply specify that the heading style is to use a page style that has the "Left Only" option set rather than the "Right Only" setting. > The contrivance is more obvious when one considers RTL documents, or > documents which are partly RTL and partly LTR, where some simplifying > assumptions cannot be made. Realizing this fact made Regina and Heiko > suggest "salvaging" this pair of styles as "odd" and "even" - but here too: > If one spells out that use case fully, one reaches the same dichotomy. I have yet to see you give an example of a document where setting a page to be left or right only does not do exactly that. When you said in your document, "Set the first page style to Left Page," you specifically told it at that point (assuming that the Page layout setting for the page style was not changed) that the page was only supposed to display on the left-hand side of the book. Therefore in order to comply with your request it will put in a blank page as a filler if necessary, even if it is the first page of the document but is defined as a Left Only page according to the page style that you gave it. It does not assume something other than what you specifically told it to do. (In reply to Eyal Rozenberg from comment #18) > 1. The "blank pages" the PDF has have neither the Left Page nor the Right > Page style. In particular, they ignore the page area color and the header > settings; and some of the blank pages (not all of them) ignore the page > border setting. A blank page means a BLANK page, not a page merely void of body text but containing other components. It is simply a filler so that the document gets printed properly. If that's not what you want, then don't use a page style that has the Right Only or Left Only option set. > There is no "book view" when editing a document, AFAIK. Try checking the documentation or the little page icons in the status bar. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
