https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159921
Bug ID: 159921
Summary: number of pages indication: display format options
(enhancement request)
Product: LibreOffice
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: Writer
Assignee: libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
Reporter: j...@cspv.hu
Created attachment 192817
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the calendar configuring popup
At the bottom of the page we see the number of pages displayed. It used to be,
for ages, only one number, say "5". That would mean in the old times that
you're working on "page 5". The length of your text is a crucial factor. Most
of us write watching the number of words and characters all the time.
I used an instance of Writer 7.4 the other day, and it was so refreshing!
As I looked at the "number of pages", it was what it looked like. Like in the
"old days".
Page 4 of 18
as opposed to
Page 4 and 5 of 18
It's simple, like with € 2.99
we read it as "2..."
As to the number of pages indication,
we read it as "Page 4"
Annoying as it is, it could be helped, easily.
But the thing we are talking about is the one and only thing: the format in
which that number is being displayed.
Now, everywhere we see numbers displayed as crucial info,
we have the option to set the format that best fits us.
We don't need all the people of the world to like the format you like. You can
just set it for yourself.
Take the calendar in Linux Desktop Environments, such as Gnome.
Just one click (on the clock), ans you're there, and yo can set the format you
like best. And you set it, and you're happy.
Just hit "configure" :)
It would be so great (saving us a major annoyance 300 times on a daily basis)
to have the configure option for the "number of pages" display format....
we have 3 numbers in that sequence:
say, the "from" (or smaller), the "to" (or greater), and the "of" numbers...
I'd like to have it, perhaps, like "%from-%to (of%of)
maybe I'd like to change it further :)
maybe I'd omit the "%from" number...
Either way, it'd be cool, cause we'd have the "configure" option! :)
I wish we had that...
- - - thank you for developing Libreoffice, and Writer! - - - -
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