https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35694
--- Comment #81 from Mike Kaganski <mikekagan...@hotmail.com> --- (In reply to Eyal Rozenberg from comment #80) > (In reply to Mike Kaganski from comment #77) > > I strongly believe, that there must *not* be any mechanics that allow *that* > > outside of the normal page break mechanism. OTOH, any improvements in the > > page breaks properties in that regards are welcome. > > Ok, so I guess we're having this discussion here after all... > > Users should not, and in fact I claim will not, insert page breaks as a > mechanism of setting page numbers or page number progression logic. > > They should not, because they don't want page breaks, and we should not > force them to break pages. I realize that we have a problem of sorts, due to > the fact that pages aren't first-class citizens in ODT documents and are > derived from paginating non-page content. But that is a challenge for us (or > rather, for you the developers) to contend with, not a burden to shift onto > users by forcing them to break pages when they don't want a break. And I claim, that what you tell is 100% misconception, and in all cases, a change in page numbering is associated with a break of content in a way that the following content must start on a new page. And so, association of page numbering with page breaking is natural and correct. Please disprove me. > They will not, because when a user wants to change the page number value, > that's not because they want empty pages (which they get today with breaks > anyways). And since they don't want empty pages, they will not consider > trying inserting page breaks as the way to get to page number control UI; > and I also doubt they will tolerate page breaks being inserted for them when > they try to control the page numbers. And that is a different problem of allowing to not insert empty pages, and unassociating even/odd page numbers from left/right pages. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.