G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
I have a question, are you using right and left page styles as opposed to the default? If yes then I would check to see what your page breaks are doing. Perhaps you do not need some.
This is a long-standing issue that took me awhile to puzzle out. I have to produce papers for my classes that specify a Title page and then the next page is numbered starting with "1". The book-centric paradigm of left/right, even/odd pages is so deeply ingrained into the program that it applies even when using nothing but the Default page style.
The first physical page is assumed to right/odd; the next is assumed to be left/even and so forth. So what happens is that if you insert a manual page break and utilize the option to reset the page numbering, the program decides whether the following page is left or right hand based on whether the page number is odd or even.
Take a couple minutes and try this out:
1. Create a new blank document.
2. Open the Stylist, right click on Default page style, and select "New". Call it "Title Page" and hit "Ok".
3. Assign the new "Title Page" style to the first blank page of your document.
4. Type a few words, then select "Insert -> Manual Break". Select "Page Break", Style "Default", check the box to "Change page number" and set the next page number to "1". Hit "Ok".
You will notice that the status bar now reads "Page 1 3/3". What happens is that OOo inserted an invisible extra page between the Title page and the First page. Invisible in the sense that you don't see it on screen, but it produces an extra blank page when printed or exported as a pdf.
So now you think you have it figured out and you're going to get clever. :) So you select the First Page style and modify it to only produce Left hand pages. No joy. If you start on the Title page (first physical page), select Insert -> Manual Break... and specify First Page style, and tell it to start with page 1, you get an error dialog that states:
"Page numbers cannot be applied to the current page. Even numbers can be used on left pages, odd numbers on right pages."
The problem is that there is no setting in the page styles for "Inline" or whatever you would want to call it. A page *will be* either left or right, end of discussion. And furthermore, left pages *will be* even and right pages *will be* odd, end of discussion. It's very stubborn that way.
Fortunately, there is a work-around!! Here's how I made it work out for me:
1. Create a Title page style from Default.
2. Lay out your Title page however it needs to look and then at the end, select "Insert -> Manual Break..." and specify Next Style as "First Page", numbered 1. You'll get that phantom page baloney, but we'll fix that.
3. *Now* go into the Stylist and modify the First page style layout to be "Left Only".
Now you will see in the status bar "Page 1 2/2", which is what we want. The page style following First Page is default and the page numbering will proceed without surprises from there.
Like I said, this is a long-standing issue with lots of comments in IZ (I don't have the issue number handy). A lot of people produce documents for pdf publication or whatever and the left/right, even/odd paradigm produces unexpected results. It isn't helped by the fact that there is absolutely *no* way to set up page styles a priori to make this work without the workaround I detailed above.
Rod
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