Wow, a lot of feedback for one weekend. Thanks everybody. Jean: "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)."
Thanks Jean. Who would have thought it was so simple! That's exactly what I was looking for. --- Tom: "... Have you considered using Desk Top Publishing programs such as Scribus? ... " For typesetting that might be worth a try, but writing a 500-page book in Scribus would be pretty painful, I think. In the past, I would have used MS Word. As Jean said, most publishers / editors want either MS Word or PDF. This is also one of my reasons for not using LaTeX: it's to difficult to convert it to Word documents if publishers would ask for it. But luckily I'm writing something for an academic publisher and, since they don't have large profit margins, they want writers to deliver camera-ready copies. (Well, 'luckily', it would be nicer if they would have typeset the whole thing for me.) This means they don't care what program I use, as long as it produces something that looks identical to all other books in the series. --- Krackedpress: "Well, LibreOffice can certainly save the work in Word .doc or Adobe .pdf file formats." Jay: "I have to sometimes submit MS Word format to people and what I do is save the document as both DOC and ODT. I use ODT as the primary and save to DOC when I need to submit it. A few people actually know I am not using Word but LO because they know my primary OS is Linux and they have never reported a problem." I assumed that outputting to .doc is not without its problems, especially if your document contains complicated tables. I've had all kinds of problems importing Word into LibreOffice, and I assumed it would be the same the other way around. Rik <solved> -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Complex-page-styles-for-book-layout-tp2934485p2946568.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- 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
