On Fri, 2011-05-13 at 18:53 +1000, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: > 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 >
You might also find Chapter 4, Design Your Book Using Writer's Styles, in my book "Self-publishing using OpenOffice 3 Writer" useful. It takes you through the steps in setting up the styles you need. A free PDF is available here: http://www.taming-openoffice-org.com/newsite/?page_id=36 (look for the "Downloadable eBook" link). Although it was written for OOo, the steps are the same for LibO. --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
