https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71583
Peter Lairo <pe...@lairo.com> changed:
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--- Comment #11 from Peter Lairo <pe...@lairo.com> ---
I hope this bug applies to both the "Page Number" and the "Page Count".
I think a very typical use-case is for documents that have several different
sections that need to be page-counted completely independently of each-other.
For instance, a document can typically have:
- Title Page
- Table of Contents (ToC) (e.g. covering 3 pages)
- Main Body (e.g. covering 100 pages)
It would be very useful to be able place the page number and page count (in the
footer) the following way:
Let's say that the entire document has 700 pages, the Title Page is 1 page, the
ToC has 3 pages, and the Main Body has 100 pages (and the remaining pages are
appendixes).
It should be (easily) possible to show the Page Numbers and the Page Counts the
following way:
The first page of the ToC shows as: Page i of iii
The second page of the Main Body shows as: Page 2 of 100
The most (semi) intuitive way I can think of is by using Page Styles, where
there would be a Combo-Box in the Page Style settings for:
( ) Continue page numbering from previous Page Style Section
(o) Start new page numbering from [ 1 ]
Another (hacky) way would be to allow users to add and subtract numbers from
the Page Numbers and the Page Counts, e.g. by adding the following
functionality to the "Edit Field" dialog:
1. Allow negative values for "Offset" for the "Page Number".
2. Add the "Offset" option to the dialog for Page Count (Strangely called
"Statistics / Pages" instead of "Page Count"), and allow for negative values
there too.
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