https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101452
--- Comment #6 from Jan-Marek Glogowski <glo...@fbihome.de> ---
(In reply to Uwe Dippel from comment #5)
> Okay, for the explanation.
> Totally not okay for an evangelist of FOSS. "Teaching the user" is a bad
> alternative to "doing things right from the start".
I definitely don't know what "doing things right from the start" is.
Granded we have a legacy codebase, but we're modernizing stuff were possible.
> And for mailmerge program, the user doesn't have to understand inner
> workings of a software. If user has a single page document and wants to
> merge for n recipients, the user expects n single pages, not 2n-1 pages,
> with n-1 virtual pages and n real pages. This, sorry, *is* crazy.
This is how Writer works internally and this can't be changed. It's one of the
basic principles how Writer does internal layouting. This also includes the
"everything is a frame" principle. You can change your page setting to single
page layout AKA no front or back page, if you really want to prevent the empty
pages. But this has probably other drawbacks, you don't want.
Now it's no problem to hide internals from the user. As I said, I would be
happy to see suggestions for a better and more consistent UI, especially since
the print preview really depends on the print settings, which is very
non-obvious for the user. Feel free to post your ideas to the design mailing
list, or open an enhancement bug report.
I thought about moveig at least the "print empty pages" as a button to the
preview, so it can be toggled. The preview pages are cached, so it should be
fast.
> And it is inconsistent. I did work with virtual pages in a publication, but
> then empty pages versus full pages would not show (starting a new chapter on
> the right side).
Virtual page numbers always exist internally. Most time they don't differ from
the real ones, but if you MM a document, which has page fields with page
numbers, you definitely don't want to use the physical number.
> If you always displayed virtual page numbers versus real
> page numbers once virtual pages exist, it would be better.
I don't understand your suggestion. Please provide an example.
The print preview has: "1 10/20".
Writer has "page 10 of 20 (page 1)"
> Though it would still not be good for mail merge, because nobody knows why a
> mail-merged document should always start on the right side.
The page setting can be double, right only or left only. The default page
setting for documents is double. MM doesn't change anything here. And it just
inserts empty pages in double mode AFAIK (didn't check).
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