https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=153534
Bug ID: 153534
Summary: Most bundled page styles are nonsensical and/or
redundant
Product: LibreOffice
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: Writer
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
I'm looking at the list of available page styles in Writer's style sidebar.
What I see is (numbering not originally there of course):
1. Default Page Style
2. Endnote
3. Envelope
4. First Page
5. Footnote
6. HTML
7. Index
8. Landscape
9. Left Page
10. Right Page
Let's now review this in a decreasing order of sense.
(1.) and (3.) : I'm ok with those. There's the app default, that's fine. And an
envelope as a page, I can see the rationale there, no problem.
(8.) : What do you mean, landscape? Landscape what? This suggests that it's a
landscape version of the default page style. But - it isn't! It doesn't inherit
the default style. If it had inherited the default style, then I could live wit
it, although it's still a bit questionable to have a separate page style for a
single aspect change relative to parent. Such a style would make more sense as
a "mixin" or "delta" style, if styles were made composable as suggested in
149271. (i.e. it would be like the Character Styles "emphasis" and "quotation")
(2.) and (7.) : It's not clear what "Index" or "Endnote" here mean. Is this
supposed to be a special page style for pages dedicated to Indices/Footnotes?
Why Index and not Table-of-Contents? Or even "Table" for pages dedicated to
tables? Plus, why/how should the page style change for an Index? Vague name and
unclear raison-d'etre.
(6.) : I have no clue what this is supposed to mean. What does a markup
language have to do with the style of a physical page?
(9.) and (10.) : The source of most confusion on this list. This can mean any
number of things! A page with an RTL default for paragraph styles? A page with
Right-aligned text by default? A page to the right of spine? A page with larger
margin on the right? Are these two - Left Page and Right Page - supposed to
alternate? If not, should a page after a right page still be a right page? I
consider myself somewhat of a power user and am I still quite confused.
(5.) : Footnotes are never on their own page, so I don't see how this can make
sense in any way!
Bottom line:
* Get rid of some and perhaps most of these. (1.), (3.), (8.) I guess you can
keep, the rest should probably just go away.
* If you keep any of the vaguely-named styles, make their rasion d'etre clearer
(and please don't tell me to go read the help...)
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