On 09/12/2025 21:41, Jon Hughes wrote:
I was able to salvage my manuscript and will proceed to publish with the
following author's note:
A Note on Production
The reader will notice that the Table of Contents is inexplicably numbered "Page
0." This is not a stylistic choice, nor is it an homage to zero-indexed arrays, nor
is it a philosophical statement about the void that precedes all narratives.
It is there because LibreOffice Writer, after three hours of increasingly
desperate attempts, absolutely refused to allow the deletion of a single
character without catastrophically destroying every other page number in this
manuscript.
Every standard solution—adjusting page number offsets, inserting manual breaks, modifying
page styles, unlinking headers and footers—resulted in either: (a) the spontaneous
generation of blank pages numbered "1" throughout the document, (b) the
complete disappearance of all page numbers except the zero, or (c) both simultaneously,
in apparent defiance of logic and causality.
The final attempt involved changing the font color of the zero to white,
rendering it invisible. LibreOffice responded by making every page number in
the entire manuscript invisible, because... of course it did.
Sounds like someone who's neither read the manual nor asked for help.
Page style and manual page break are the the keys, I believe.
LO does things differently to what might be expected. (And yes, it can
seem "clunky" at times for trivial jobs.)
--
Mike Scott
Harlow, Essex, England
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