Tom, for what he wants, LibreOffice can do a fine job. I use it to publish books similar to what he's describing all the time.
Please don't put people off our product unless it truly can't do the job required. You're doing them a disservice by suggesting it can't. --Jean On Fri, 2011-05-13 at 09:36 +0100, Tom Davies wrote: > Hi :) > > Are you producing a book or something really long with a professional finish? > > Have you considered using Desk Top Publishing programs such as Scribus? > There > are several LaTex programs but apparently LaTex is tricky to use. There > might > be other OpenSource programs that are more suitable for DTP. > > > Regards from > Tom :) > > > > > ________________________________ > From: rdb <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Fri, 13 May, 2011 4:53:04 > Subject: [libreoffice-users] Complex page styles for book layout > > 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? > > Thanks > > Rik -- 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
