https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=153534
--- Comment #11 from Eyal Rozenberg <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #9) > The ticket started with "get rid of some and perhaps most of the page > styles". We discussed this in the design meeting and come to the conclusion > that every single page style has a use case. See also Jonathon's comment 7. > => NAB Considering how the minutes say very little, I had little to reply to, but tried to do so in comment #10. I wonder if the discussion was actually more serious than that. I replied to Jonathan's better-elaborated comment, in comment #8. Actually, by comment #8, I have come to realize that this should probably be a meta-bug, as there are actual several different issues: * Style naming * Styles without any use case * Potential page style use cases which aren't realized in LibreOffice right now * The question of use-cases which don't involve the user explicitly choosing a page style * Styles with use apparent use cases which require 41316 to be valid. * The case of Left/Right, which may have some kind of intended use case, but it's bad/invalid/undesirable as well as confusing. > Whether Left/Right is correct or should be Even/Odd is another question. It > probably boils down whether RTL starts the first page on even numbers. No, it doesn't boil down to that. It can't be fixed. Whichever way you try to give a raison d'etre for Left Page / Right Page - it doesn't add up. > (In reply to Eyal Rozenberg from comment #8) > > No, the mechanism of having separate features when a page is odd or even in > > the order of pages, or being to the right or left of the spine, is something > > which must be covered within a _single_ page style. > > You invent new wheels; and even if your approach works we still want to > support round-trips with other applications/document types. On the contrary, these are existing wheels: "Page layout: Mirrored" is a possible feature of a single page style, and is what you use to get the alternating pages laid out different, with the gutter located near the spine. "Left Page" / "Right Page" are new wheels. I've never seen a document which uses them. I would bet very few people use these (and perhaps even nobody? I wonder). Even if, somehow, "Left Page" and "Right Page" existed before a gutter and mirrored layout were supported - that would make them the old crutches, not the old wheels... -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
