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?
I'll expand upon my previous answer. Don't use Left Page/Right Page if the only difference is that margins are mirrored and the info in headers and/or footers is different. Use a mirrored page style instead. Then the lefts and rights will take care of themselves when they follow a first page style. You can set the First Page style to be "left and right" (it defaults to right only). --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
