https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=153534
--- Comment #19 from ajlittoz <[email protected]> --- I just discovered this bug report which looks rather like a thread about page style philosophy. Eyal, you pretend to be a power user, but have you really seen the page style use context or used them. 1. Default Page Style: well, one needs a page style anyway; so this is the starting one 2. and 5. Endnote is the page style used when Writer lays out the end notes; Footnote has the same role when you chose to position all your footnotes at end of document. And if you don't like this automatic behaviour, you can change the page styles with Tools>Footnotes & Endnotes. These page styles are provided so that end-of-document notes have some default page style. 4. First Page may have an ambiguous name because you meet "first" pages nearly everywhere in a document: the very first page, chapter first pages, … Perhaps a better name would have been Front Cover or Title Page. It is automatically followed by Default Page Style (Next Style configuration) 7. Index is clearly intended for indexes but is not automatically applied because there is no obligation to isolate TOC, Alphabetical Index or other Table of … in a separate group of pages (think of chapter partial TOCs following a chapter heading). Segregating index in separate page is an author decision Writer cannot guess. Therefore this page style may look unused. Its name is simply a suggestion. 9. and 10. Left Page and Right Page are a consolidated pair because they are linked by their Next Style property. Unless modified they can't be used separately. But, once again, using them is an author's decision, usually motivated by the need to have different header/footer, notably positioning the page number on the outer side. Note there are however alternate ways to achieve this which can avoid the insertion of blank pages (if you untick the Same content on … box in the page style configuration). 3. Envelop: works with Insert>Envelope but needs probably to be customised to cope with your actual stationery; normally you don't invoke it "manually" as it is part of an "automatic" feature. 6. As already explained by Regina, this is the default style for HTML document, replacing Default Page Style for them; note that page styles in HTML documents are nonsense because there is no notion of "page"; to emphasise this, the page style list is disabled in the style side pane when you're in HTML mode. But you can still customise it (with visible effects) with a double-click on its name in the status bar. This leaves 8. Landscape which once again suggests a use. But as you pointed out, it may be confusing if you customised Default Page Style for landscape orientation instead of replacing the latter by Landscape when you created your document. All in all, I find the default page style list quite correctly balanced between functional utility and usage suggestion. It should encourage to discover what can be done with page styles. PS: I don't understand your point in comment #8 about the necessity to replace page style in 800 pages after some insertion. This happens frequently with DOC(X) documents because of the approximate conversion resulting in one page style per page, but should not be with adequately formatted documents. I am personally interested by the case. So, if you're willing, contact me through private mail on AskLO to discuss the mishap. We're now left with 6. and 8. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
