At 21:37 14/01/2008 +1100, James Buchanan wrote:
The problem I have is that I'm self publishing and have the title
page, copyright page with Library of Congress CIP data, dedication
page, blank page, then open right for the first page of the first
chapter. When I insert field -> page number, it gives me 5. Is there
any way I can start it at 1, and suppress the printing of page
numbering on blank pages?
You do this with page styles. Let's imagine that you will use the
Default page style for the body of your work. This will have page
numbers. So you need a different page style for the front matter,
which you have chosen not to have page numbers.
o Go to Format | Styles and Formatting (or the Styles and Formatting
button or press F11).
o Select the Page Styles button and the Default page style.
o Select "New Style from Selection" from the button on the right.
o Select a name for the new style, e.g. "Front matter".
The new style is now an exact copy of the Default style, but you can
modify it separately if you wish. Use Insert | Footer > | Default to
insert a footer into the Default page style, and then insert the page
number into this footer in the way you describe. (You may wish to
insert an empty footer into the "Front matter" style for
symmetry.) To get the page numbers to work as you require:
o Put the cursor into your fourth (blank) page.
o Go to Insert | Manual Break..., select "Page break", choose
Default from the drop-down menu under Style, tick "Change page
number", and then set "1" in the window at the bottom.
Now, how do you suppress page numbers on blank pages? I don't think
there is any obvious way to get Writer simply to notice that a page
is blank and suppress the page number. So the blank pages have
somehow to have a different page style. You could arrange this
manually by creating another style - perhaps "Blank page" - with no
footer (or perhaps an empty one) and then inserting manual page
breaks before and after your blank pages.
But are your blank pages systematic, rather than just random? If so,
there may be an easier way. Do you simply want each chapter, for
example, to start on a recto? If so, the trick is to get Writer to
insert these blank pages automatically, as it will then suppress page
numbering automatically. To do this, you will need another page
style for the first page of each chapter, with the requirement that
this must be a right-hand page. As above, use "New Style from
Selection" to create this style - perhaps "New chapter" - from the
Default page style. This style will need its footer and page number,
of course. The trick is to modify the "New chapter" page style and
make two important changes:
o On the Page tab, under "Layout settings", choose "Only right" for
"Page layout". This forces the new chapter's first page to be a recto.
o On the Organizer tab, set Next Style as "Default". This means
that whenever a page is given the "New chapter" page style, the
following page will automatically get the Default page style (as then
will subsequent pages, of course).
Now all you have to do at the end of each chapter is to insert a
manual page break, changing the page style to "New chapter". The
chapter will start on a recto, and any necessary blank page will have
its page number suppressed. With this technique, you can simplify my
explanation above for getting your fifth page to be a recto bearing
the page number "1": just put a manual page break to the "New
chapter" style on your third (dedication) page. (By the way, don't
be confused by the fact that Writer doesn't actually display these
blank pages in editing mode: you just need to go to Page Preview to
see what is actually happening.)
Incidentally, it is common for books to have the pages of the front
matter numbered but in a separate sequence and with roman, rather
than arabic, numerals. If you wish, you can easily see how this can
be achieved by applying page numbering to the "Front matter" style,
but in this different format.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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