Dan, If I place 1000 words in the left page, the words are still going to overflow onto the right page - I am not sure what your idea is actually accomplishing.
> On Oct 14, 2014, at 9:22 AM, Dan Lewis <elderdanle...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 10/14/2014 12:15 PM, Marc Grober wrote: >> Is there is technical solution to running parallel text in side by side >> pages (the best example would be a text with a translation where you >> have the original on one page and the translation on the facing page. >> This is done easily enough in columns, but there must be some way to >> pass two threads of raw text to a section in which one thread is passed >> only to odd pages and the other only to even pages, or are we stuck >> with alternating the text manually and inserting a gazillion page breaks? > I think that page styles will do it. Open an untitled document in Writer. > Use the F4 key to open the Styles and Formating Window. Click the "Page > Styles" icon at the top of this window. Double click "First Page" from the > lists of page styles to apply this style to the page. Then right click "First > Page" and select Modify from the context menu. Change the "Next Style" > property to "Left Page". Click OK. > This should do it. Enter the original text on the left pages and the > translations on the right pages. > The reason this works is because of styles. They insure that each left > page is followed by a right page which is followed by a left page... Writer > is designed to begin with the first page on the right, so you need the "First > Page" to fulfill this need. From then on the left and right pages will follow > correctly. (No page breaks are needed.) > In the bottom right corner of the Writer window are three icons of pages. > The one of the right is the one you should click if it is not highlighted. > This places two pages in the window beginning with a right page first > followed by a left right page combination. > > Dan > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted