https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103078
Bug ID: 103078
Summary: Left header and right header inconsistent and vary
thru doc, and mismatch UI
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 5.1.4.2 release
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64)
OS: Linux (All)
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: Writer
Assignee: libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
Reporter: l...@zeta.org.au
Created attachment 127907
--> https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/attachment.cgi?id=127907&action=edit
Four screenshots and the long MS (obfuscated) showing the problems
This bug might relate to bugs 49171, 81012, 91296, 94621, 100287 and 100290 but
I think it's also likely to be different.
When I set the left header and right header to be different for my novels, it
seems that:
1) The paragraph style "Header left" is used on the right pages *sometimes*
through my novel, and I have to manually set the paragraph style in the header
to be "Header Left"
2) The reverse situation sometimes applies
3) As well, sometimes on a left page, the header's *contents* are the
cocontents of a right page, and I have to manually copy the contents of a left
page into the already "Header left" style paragraph, before the right contents
appear.
4) The reverse is also true for some right pages.
In addition, on some pages, it's hard to say what the header's paragraph style
really is. When you click into the header, the UI element that appears and
shows the style sometimes says that the style is "First Page Header (<page
style)", even if I manually set the paragraph style to be "Header Left" or
"Header Right".
In the sequence of attached images,
Header-oddity-1.png shows p22, a left page, which the Styles menu says is style
"Header" (instead of "Header Left")
Header-oddity-2.png shows how it changes if I double-click "Header Left" in the
Styles and Formatting menu to force it to that style. (Note that the page
number also changes to a different typeface and font size.)
Header-oddity-3.png shows what the header text looks like after I "Select All"
in the header and paste in the text from an earlier left hand page that has
correct contents. In particular, the source text was from a page where the
header format panel as "Header Left".
Header-oddity-4.png shows the result of the copy/paste mentioned above: the
contents are now correct, but the Style and Formatting panel now shows the
paragraph style has been reset to "Header", even thought the blue UI element
now shows as "Left Page Header (Convert 8)".
In case it's relevant, to start each chapter so as to display no header or
footer, I make sure that it uses a page style that I have set up to have no
header or footer ("Convert 1"), and which is succeeded by a normal page style
that does have a header (only) - called "Convert 8".
The header area on such chapter 1st pages (a page style called Convert 1), are
marked in the blue UI element as "Header (Convert 1)". The header of the next
page is marked "First Page Header (Convert 8)", which makes no sense to me.
As I work through my hundreds of pages of MS, checking each page header, it
seems that typically the page headers get confused and wrong immediately after
each new chapter.
I'm just scrolling through, correcting as I go (I spent a couple of hours
fixing the 4.25"x7" edition of my 1st novel, yesterday, and am now doing the
same kinds of corrections for that same size edition for my 2nd), and it looks
quite consistent: the errors start after the 1st page of each new chapter. I
think it's because LO is somehow miscalculating what pages are left and what
are right. It's like the 1st page of a new chapter confuses LO so it doesn't
realise that odd-number pages are right hand pages, and even numbered pages are
left hand pages.
I'm on p54 of my corrections. I'll obfuscate my MS, and save it as-is, and
attach it along with the screen shots. I hope it will help you track down what
is going on. This bug is driving me a bit batty, since I can't work out what
triggers it.
I can see that it's kind of WYSIWYG, to allow people to click in to a header
and type directly, and having that then flow on and affect all the following
pages (I think).
But it sure would be nice to be able to just define a header with the text I
want for the left pages (in my case: page no, left justified, author name,
regular font, centred) and for the right pages (Book title, italic,
right-justified tab, page no.), and then have that applied to all pages that
have headers turned on, and let LO work out which pages are left and right
pages.
That said, maybe there's some other bug that's confusing LO about left and
right, and if that was fixed, all would be well.
--
You are receiving this mail because:
You are the assignee for the bug._______________________________________________
Libreoffice-bugs mailing list
Libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice-bugs
