https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168272

--- Comment #9 from Eyal Rozenberg <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Mike Kaganski from comment #8)
> So your imagined function would be limited to (up to) two already existing
> manual page breaks, one before the start of current selection, and one after
> the end of it? IMO, it makes sense.

Hi Mike :-)  I missed you at LibOCon this year...

Assuming by the "imagined function" you mean the application of DF, then yes,
it's just as you said: If you Format > Page... without selecting anything, it
would affect the page sequence between the last page break before the cursor,
and the first page break after it (or the start/end of the document if there
are no such breaks).

Entering Format > Page... with a selection present actually "muddies the
waters" somewhat - as the user's intent becomes less obvious:

* A selection typically doesn't agree with page sequence boundaries; does the
user mean to affect those pages which are half-selected?
* Does the user want to introduce page breaks right before and after the
selection? Or do they want to style existing page sequences, intersecting the
selection?

I would suggest a conservative interpretation in such cases: Assuming that no
new breaks are to be introduced, and having all page sequences intersecting the
selection be affected. This is also what we do, IIANM, when we have a selection
intersecting multiple paragraphs, but not fully covering them, when we apply
some paragraph-level DF, like inter-line vspacing.

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