https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160686
--- Comment #34 from Eyal Rozenberg <[email protected]> --- (In reply to David from comment #33) > If the developers consider changing the "Next style" of a style to be a > fundamentally different style and that this somehow totally changes some > sort of binding spec, then fine. That would make these styles completely different than what they are now: An alternating pair. If you, say, change the orientation of the landscape PS - it won't be the landscape style anymore. So, you believe that the default list of styles could, or should, contain one (or two?) style(s) which is like the Left Page / Right Page style right now, but non-alternating. That's a suggestion that merits discussion (and then I would challenge you to choose an appropriate name, to establish a measure of popularity of the use case etc). Regina believes, that the default list of styles should, contain a pair of styles with the same definitions as Left Page / Right Page right now, but which don't serve as their name suggests - she would call them "odd" and "even". That contradicts what you're asking for (and has its own issues which I mentioned both here and in 140655). But we should not keep style X when (essentially) nobody wants X as is, and different people think contradictory modifications X' and X'' are useful. > The automatically inserted blank pages can also be seen in Writer if book > view is enabled Indeed they are, and I again apologize for missing that. FYI, I've filed bug 160785 (a dupe of 150839) regarding increasing their visibility by adding the multipage mode choosers to the View menu. However - the problems I described are partially-evident there as they are in print preview book mode: * Blank page insertions are not what the user asked for. They may want the insertions, or may want them not to appear. (For the first page specifically, see bug 117231). * The blank pages aren't styled at all. * (not visible in book view) the exported PDF may get the page border frame of the subsequent page style; filed this as bug 160809. * The gutter of both Right Page and Left Page is on the same side of the page - the left side. You see this if you set a non-zero gutter width. But most importantly - the simplest use case which most users would be interested would be a single page style with the "Mirrored" layout option, and an inside non-zero-space gutter (which they could then play with). That too could be a possible alternative to the Left Page / Right Page pair, to have available by default. Perhaps we could call it "Book Page with Gutter" or just "Book Page". -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
