https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71583
Priority: medium
Bug ID: 71583
Assignee: [email protected]
Summary: FORMATTING: Missing feature: Separate page count field
for different styles
Severity: normal
Classification: Unclassified
OS: All
Reporter: [email protected]
Hardware: Other
Whiteboard: BSA
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Version: 4.1.0.4 release
Component: Writer
Product: LibreOffice
LibreOffice Writer is missing an important feature; A page counts like field
which counts pages of a specific style only instead of counting all the pages
of the whole document. This feature would be very useful.
Sometimes users want to or are required to have different sections in their
document with page numbering like this:
Page X of Y,
where X is a page number and Y is a page count for that specific section. For
example:
Appendix 1 page 3 of 8
Appendix 2 page 1 of 3
Appendix 3 page 5 of 6
Currently, implementing the example above is not as simple as it should be. One
way is to use bookmarks and cross-references like this:
1. Make a bookmark on the last line of a style: Insert > Bookmark
2. Name it like "LastPageSTYLENAME" where STYLENAME is the name of the
corresponding style.
3. Make a cross-reference to it where you want the "page count for style field"
to be: Insert > Cross-reference
4. Select type "Bookmark", select the bookmark you made, select "Page" for the
"Insert reference to" option and click insert.
This is not that hard to do when you know how, but it is tiresome. Also, many
users don't know how to do this workaround. A simple field would be much
better:
Insert > Fields > Page Count for style
Users would select a place where they want this field to appear (a header most
likely but not always), select "Page Count for style" in the menu and, from the
opening window, select a style upon which the page count field should operate.
The options should be something like this:
() this style (default)
() other style [=========]
() other styles [=========]
where () is a radio button and [=========] is a dropdown panel where all the
styles
used in the corresponding document are listed.
It is useful to be able to select the style(s) the page count field should
operate
with. For example, users might need to tell the reader how many appendix pages
they
have in total like this:
"My document is 132 pages long including 14 appendix pages."
Is this feature implementable?
Operating System: All
Version: 4.1.0.4 release
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