https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106476
--- Comment #2 from Luke Kendall <[email protected]> ---
That seems pretty strange, but it's useful information if I can figure out what
you mean.
I don't understand why you say Page Style (Convert 8) had
Page size set to:
- Width 5.00 in
- Height 7.99 in
Changed Height to 8.00 in.
In my copies, including the files I sent, I have:
- Width 360 pt
- Height 575 pt
None of this explains why the two files, with identical settings for every
property of the Convert 8 page style and the CSP Chapter Body paragraph style
are laid out differently by LO. Surely the difference in layout should be
reflected by some visible difference in one of the settings?
When you said "You cannot set a page size in inches, a font size in points, a
before/after paragraph spacing in inches - and expect everything to fit."
- that's helpful. But since I have paragraph spacing of 0 for before and
after, I assume you mentioned that just for completeness.
I assume the key point you're making is that I'll need to make sure that the
Page Height is an integer multiple of all the parts that go to fill the page.
That's really helpful, and I can get to work on that if I know a little more.
Is there a diagram or a wiki page that explains what all the component pieces
are? It's not obvious to me which elements add, and which ones reserve space
within some other page element.
I'll also need to know what Leading is used. Specifically, with spacing set to
Single and font size of 10.5, what leading does LO use? 1pt? 1.5pt? 2pt? With
that info, I can know how much vertical space I need for the no. of lines I
want. (Because I have inter-paragraph spacing set to 0.)
I just spent 15 mins googling and searching in the LibreOffice help wiki
unsuccessfully trying to find that information.
My best guess is that the paper height will be the Page height.
That the Top Margin and Bottom margin specify the vertical space allocated for
those parts of the page, and that the Footer and Header are irrelevant, because
they specify the layout of Header (Footer) elements *within* the Top Margin
(Bottom Margin). (I assume that in Heading, Spacing gives the distance from
the top edge of the paper to the baseline of the header elements. Hmm, but then
I can't guess what the Height is used for. Whether the header elements are
measured from the edge of the paper, or from the edge of the margin, I don't
understand why you need two numbers, so I clearly don't understand that.
The Help page for Header: https://help.libreoffice.org/Common/Header is hard to
follow. A diagram would really help! But I think it
means the Convert 8 page style is a bit weird: Height is the total height of
the header (2.9pt only in Convert 8!) but Use Dynamic Spacing allows that
distance to be exceeded.
It says the Height is the height of the header. Spacing (23.1 pt in Convert 8
page style) is the distance between the bottom edge of the header and the top
edge of the document text. So it's a relative number: sounds like it adds
therefore to the Height.
This doesn't seem to match what I see, so clearly I'm not understanding it, and
I'll need to go and do some experiments. I can't work it out from the Help
page. In my doc, it looks more like spacing is the gap between the edge of the
paper and the baseline of the header contents. But maybe those dimensions are
coming from the contents because Autofit Height is on, and perhaps the info is
coming from the Header paragraph style, or possibly from that and the Header
Right/Left paragraph styles (Font and Indents/Spacing).. nope, that doesn't
match what's in my doc. I seem to remember there's a Character Style defined
for Headings that might override that, too. Or perhaps it's overridden just by
editing the text for the header directly...
I'm getting very confused. I need to go and do some experiments. I'm still
very concerned though that the two documents have different number of lines per
page despite having the same dimensions set for all page elements.
Time for experimentation. On a copy of the doc, obviously.
Thanks at least for pointing me at something that will let me try out some
things, and making me realise I don't understand at all how the page layout
works.
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