https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=153259
Bug ID: 153259
Summary: Enhancement Request: Exclude some pages from field
"Page Count"
Product: LibreOffice
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: Writer
Assignee: libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
Reporter: page74010...@yahoo.fr
Writer allows to design COMPLETE books include front and back covers. The
covers are usually made in a different material from book contents and are
added (glued) at a late step in manufacturing. When it comes to count the
pages, covers are excluded.
Similarly, we can write a letter and keep the envelope in the same file. The
fact that the envelope is part of the file renders quite useless the field
"Page Count" to number the letter sheets as "x of y".
There are complicated workarounds to display the "real" number of pages based
on cross-references, but these workarounds are not in the immediate reach of
most users.
The Ask LO site shows that excluding pages from the count is a frequent
requirement.
My suggestion is to add a check box in the page style configuration dialog,
perhaps in the Page tab: [ ] Exclude this style from page count.
This may require the definition of a new field because ODF 1.3 ยง 7.5.18.2
states that the present Page Count field displays the count from
"<meta:document-statistic>" and all pages should be kept in statistics.
Alternatively, the present Page Count could be reassigned to a new field
clearly identified as a statistics field because most users don't use the field
for statistics but as a count of "meaningful" pages (page x of y where y is
supposed to omit envelope, covers and others).
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