On Tue, 4 Oct 2016 16:17:42 -0700 John Hart <jh...@testra.com> wrote:
> On 10/4/2016 12:12 AM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: > >> Just because styles are powerful, doesn't mean they have to be hard to use. > >> >A list of style attributes, and a diagram of how they propagate would > >> >bemost useful. Does such a document exist? > >> > > >> >jrh > >> > > > > > See the file referenced in this posting for an overview of using Style > > https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?p=275320#p275320 > > > > This document may also be informative: > > https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Writer_for_Students > > This latter document is "Writer for Students" (several languages)-- > Unfortunately they don't provide the information I need. > > The numbering system works until I insert pages in front of the body for > the title, etc. > Then every other page gets numbered, and if the number is odd, page > numbering for > the whole document is turned off. > > Is this a BUG in OO 3.3 that was fixed in later versions? > If so, is there a workaround? > If it's not a BUG, what needs to be added to make it work.. > The manual discusses Roman Numeral numbering of the preface, > and uses page break insertion options the version I'm using doesn't have. > > jrh Some detailed Page Numbering/Page Style tutorials are at https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewforum.php?f=71&sid=b270debd1649de9c2b12fd86ce680817 What you describe is not a bug; it is caused by incorrect understanding of the tool you are using. If "every other page gets numbered" then you are probably using a Left/Right sequence of pages, with numbers only on one or other page style; alternately, you may be using a mirrored page style set not to use the same style left and right. OpenOffice frequently offers a number of methods of achieving any desired end. If you position cursor at very start of text in your work (turning on /View /non printing characters - a toggle command - is helpful), typing Ctrl Enter will give a new page inserted before the existing. You should then format this page to the desired page style. I have formatted many books correctly, with all usual pagination for prelims, text and appendices, using OO 3 and OO 4, both with existing text sequences and with text in process of writing, so I doubt there are bugs preventing such formatting. A more detailed discussion on use of Styles is in Bruce Byfield's "Designing with LibreOffice", much of which is applicable to OpenOffice. It may be downloaded from http://designingwithlibreoffice.com/download-buy/ -- Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
