https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41316
Roman Eisele <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #3 from Roman Eisele <[email protected]> 2012-05-10 01:29:45 PDT --- I think this feature request could be reformulated in a more general way: We should allow page styles to be based on each other in an hierachical way, just like page styles and character styles, using the 'Linked with:' popup menu in the first tab of the Page style dialog. I see at least four points which show the importance of this request: 1) Consistency with page styles and character styles would be improved, and therefore the user experience. 2) The first tab of the Page style already contains the 'Linked with:' popup menu, it is just not enabled (as already pointed out by Sasha in comment #2). This suggests, at least for the understanding of an ordinary user, that this feature is already planned and just not yet implemented/completed. 3) This feature would it make easier to apply the common formatting consistently to all/plenty of the page styles in a document. For example, I had to edit a 300pp. proceedings volume (a 'Sammelband' in German) with different essays by different authors. To get the different page headings right (incl. the name of the author and the title of his essay), I used one page style per essay. This works fine. But when I wanted to change the page margins, I had to apply this change to all the page styles one by one. If I could base these page styles on one base style, changing only the header contents, it would be possible to change the common attributes of all these page styles (like the page margins in my case) with one action. This would allow much (a) faster and (b) more consistent changes to the page layout. The consistency of page styles is very important for professional publishing, of course. 4) Implementing this feature would also help to prevent situations and misunderstandings like in bug 35900. In this report, a user reported that the "last page loses headers footers". His document had a single endnote; for this endnote LibreOffice used the 'Endnotes' page style (correct!); the user had already added headers and footers to the 'Default' page style and wondered why they did not appear on the last page (the one with the endnote). If the 'Endnote' page style was based on the 'Default' page style, adding header and footer to the 'Default' page style would add them to all other page styles, including the 'Endnote' page style; the misunderstanding would not have occured. (If one WANTS to disable footer and/or header again on a page style based on the 'Default' style, this would be still possible by editing this particular page style.) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. _______________________________________________ Libreoffice-bugs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice-bugs
