On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 20:53 -0700, rdb wrote: > Hi guys, > > > I am trying to set up a template for a book, but I am struggling to find a > way to set up the page styles to make them conform to the publisher's style > sheet. Here is what they are asking for: > > > > Preface or Acknowledgements or Dedication begins on page v. Contents begins > on page v if there is no preface, etc., otherwise on the next right-hand > page > Main text (Chapter 1) begins on page 1 > All left-hand pages have even numbers > All right-hand pages have odd numbers > In an authored work, begin each new chapter on a new page (right- or left- > hand). > ... > Please make sure that neither a running head nor a page number is printed on > the first page of the Preface, Contents, Appendix, Notes, References, Index, > or on the opening page of a new chapter or article. > Place the page numbers at the outer margin, to the left or right. > > > The main body of the text is ok: you just us the Left page / Right page > styles and everything works fine. I created a new style 'Prefatory' to deal > with the different page numbering system in the preface and made 'Prefatory > left' and 'Prefatory right' to make them alternative between headings. Then > the problems start: > > I can make a style 'First Page' for the first page of each chapter which > does not have a header. However, you have to specify a 'Next style' in > Modify... > Organiser > Next Style and in my case this style is Left Page > when the First Page is a right page and right page when it is the other way > around. LibreOffice appears to enforce this next style and you can't > override it manually. In other words, if I have a nice left page / right > page thing going, and I change one left page into 'First Page', the next > style will automatically change to left page and my page numbering goes > horribly wrong. It is also impossible to have chapters of just one page > because it is impossible to have two First Pages following each other. Is > there a way to overrride this? > > In other words, I need to find a way to create a stylesheet that: > > > has two different page numbering systems, one with Roman and one with Arabic > numerals, with different styles for left and right pages > allows the first page of each chapter to have no header at all > allows that first page to occur on a left and a right page > allows for one-page chapters > > Ideally, I'd like to accomplish all this in a reasonably elegant way, > without splitting up all my styles into substyles. Anybody knows how that > would work?
Please see chapters 6 and 7 of the Writer Guide, which have some examples that should steer you in the right direction. One of the secrets is to choose the appropriate "next page" style to be applied automaticly for each page style. You can get those chapters here: http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/documentation/ --Jean -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
