https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33304
--- Comment #54 from Mike Kaganski <mikekagan...@hotmail.com> ---
The issues here:
1. Terminological (and coordinate system) problem: what Writer calls "margin"
is not what Word calls "margin"; the latter uses that term for what is margins
+ headings (roughly) in Writer. this is also ...
2. Computational problem: when I mentioned "roughly", I e.g. didn't consider
borders width; and the latter is usually expressed in different units compared
to the rest; so it's not easy to calculate the correct elements sizes to get
exactly what is expressed in the other coordinate system, even when one
understands the idea.
3. Missing functionality problem: although it's true that Writer system can do
things Word can't (easily), the opposite is also true: e.g., in Writer, it's
difficult to make headers to grow from page body upwards, i.e. when it's
single-line, it starts just as close to page body as when it's 3 lines high.
4. Habit/least surprise principle problem: when users decide to add a
header/footer to a document with content, users expect (out of habit, or
because it just seems logical) that the pages will keep their current content,
and the added headers/footers would not reduce the page body area.
5. Formatting problem: see comment 46.
Those are actually mostly *different* problems; and the problem 4, which has
possibly the largest impact, is likely the easiest to fix just by making the
algorithm adding header/footer to recalculate margins (as final part of comment
45 suggests). That would partly address also problem 2, which might be further
addressed e.g. by the complex "page layout" dialog, which would allow the two
coordinates variants simultaneously, and do all the recalculations itself.
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