Hi Chris:
On 25/09/2023 20:02, Chris J. wrote:
Hi.
Whole book, each chapter is a file. No page numbers. My bad.
Without going through each and every page, is there a way to propagate headers
and footers on every page with the requisite page numbers and whatever else
throughout a chapter. I realize I will likely need to do this one chapter at a
time.
I suspect this has something to do with a style sheet. I'm unclear how to
propagate throughout the document after the fact of the document's creation,
i.e. I've already written the book.
Also, If I manage this miracle. will the chapter numbers be properly re
sequenced if I concatenate all the chapters. That would really be nice. I'll be
doing that manually in LO Writer using cut-n-paste unless there's a better more
automated way.
Styles are really the answer to well constructed documents and they do seem
like an overly large burden when you first start looking at them. But there is
some very good documentation on the Open Documents website:
https://documentation.libreoffice.org/
I imagine all your separate documents have the same basic default page style.
If you edit your page style in the first document and activate the footer and
then insert the page number field into one of the footers, every page will then
have a number.
If you then open your next chapter and select all the text (Ctrl-A) and then
copy it (Ctrl-C), you can paste this text into the bottom of the last page of
your first chapter and all the pages of the second chapter will then have
numbers which carry on the sequence of the first chapter.
You will probably want each chapter to start on a right hand page and that may
require inserting a blank page at the end of a preceding chapter.
When you come to formatting the entire book, you will probably come round to
the idea that you need several page styles. These may be for a preface with
page numbers in roman numerals; for the first page of a chapter where you may
not want a header and the chapter title may need to be part way down the page.
Then any blank left hand page would be another style (possibly without header
or footer - depending on your style preferences). And finally another style for
any back-matter.
Each new page style is easily developed from the default page style. The difficulty
comes in changing the style of a page. The traditional double-click used to change a
paragraph style doesn't work, in my experience, for page styles. What you do is go to
the bottom of the preceding page, click Insert > More breaks > manual break >
select page break and in the drop down list, select the page style required and click OK.
This will give you an empty page of the style required. Place the cursor at the
top of this page and hit delete. It will then be filled with the material of
the next page in the document correctly formatted for the page style you
inserted.
If sometime, you need to stitch two docs together and you require an unusual
page number at the front end of the second doc, you can pre-set its number
using this sequence suggested to me a couple of years or so ago by Regina
Henschel.
In this case, I wanted the Writer doc to start its numbering at page 2 so I
could export it as a pdf and then stitch to it another pre-existing pdf page
with no.1. I thought to use an off-set but it wouldn't work so Regina kindly
showed me:
That is the wrong tool for your purpose. Go to the very first paragraph of the page. Open the properties of that
paragraph. Go to tab "Text flow". Enable Breaks "Insert". Enable "With page style".
Enable "Page number". Enter 2.
The tool "Offset" has a totally different use case. It is used in letter for
the information in the footer, that this page of the letter has a following page. And for
this use case it is the correct behavior, that it is empty for the last page of the
letter.
hth
Philip
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