H.S. wrote:
I am not an expert in typography and printing. Having said that, I think you are tackling the problem from the wrong angle. Your objective should be whether you want a single sided document (in which case, header right style will work for all pages), or if you want double sided document (in which case left and right header styles will work). In the former case, there is no tinkering to be done. In the latter case, all you should need to do is to decide on the inner margins on the left hand pages and their headers will turn out to be okay. At least, that is how it is done in LaTeX, and LaTeX does this kind of stuff quite professionally.
There are two issues here, one general, one specific. The general one has to do with how one can arrange for linked styles to be updated automatically when their parent style changes even after some of the inherited properties have been modified in the child, i.e., how to "erase" local property settings that mask inherited settings.
The specific one has to do with what I'm trying to do. I want outer margins of, say, 1" for body text, but I want outer margins of, say, only 1/2" for header text. (My goal is to have page numbers appear closer to the edge of the pages than the body text of the book.) The way I achieve this now is to have different before-text and after-text indents for left and right header paragraph styles. I would not need to do this if there were a way to specify negative offsets for headers with respect to the body page area, but this does not seem to be possible.
I'm pretty new to Writer, so if there's a better way to do what I want to do, I'm all for it. Fundamentally, I simply want to put page numbers closer to the edge of the pages than the body text.
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