It looked to me like Brian had a good handle, and that I had missed something. I think if I followed what he was saying, the key is to put in a manual break first, and I must have missed that.
Regards, On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 1:19 PM, anne-ology <[email protected]> wrote: > Dale ... Nino ... & others in the know - > > Please explain how this works - > I think I've been doing it wrong; > your methods sound to be a shortcut which sure would keep the > pages in line. > > Thanking you now, I'll be eagerly awaiting further details along > this line, > > > > From: Dale Erwin <[email protected]> > Date: Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 7:54 PM > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Fwd: Why new page style after manual > page break changes all pages? > To: [email protected] > > > On 4/22/2014 7:35 AM, Nino Novak wrote: > > On 21.04.2014 22:30, Dale Erwin wrote: >> >> [...] >> >> I have never had this problem and have never had the need to create >>> sections. Maybe it's because I always use page styles alternating from >>> right page to left page and back. For instance, I begin a book with a >>> page >>> style called "Title", marked as right page only and set the next page >>> style >>> to "Copyright". I set the Copyright style to left page only and the next >>> style as FrontMatterRight. I set the FrontMatterRight style to right page >>> only and next style as FrontMatterLeft and set the FrontMatterLeft style >>> to >>> left page only and next style to FrontMatterRight. This puts me in a >>> loop, >>> and to break out of the loop I insert a manual page break and check the >>> option to change the style. I also set the FrontMatter styles to use >>> lower >>> case roman numerals for page numbering and I can change the page numbering >>> at the same time as I break out of the loop with the insert manual page >>> break. >>> >> Isn't what you describe exactly creating sections (even if you call it >> "page >> break with changing style" or whatever)? >> >> Nino >> > > I should hope not. On the Insert menu there is an option for Manual Break > and an option for Section. Why would that be considered the same thing? > And, if it is, why are two options necessary? > > Dale Erwin > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Kevin B. O'Brien [email protected] http://google.me/+kevinobrien Facebook is Evil. Cancel your account. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
