At 08:02 05/12/2008 -0800, Elchanan Noname wrote:
We are writing a book with portrait orientation. We wish to include,
on selected pages, full-page tables in landscape orientation. We
wish for the headers. footers, and pagination on these pages to
retain its "normal" portrait orientation.
We know how to work with headers and footers in general, and we know
how to create a pair of left/right landscape page styles, in and of
themselves. What we do not yet know is how to create the landscape
page style AND retain or superimpose the portrait orientation in the
headers/footers.
I don't think that you can do this - at least, not in the way that
you suggest. The position of the header and footer appears - not
surprisingly - to depend directly on the page orientation. So if you
give selected pages the landscape orientation, you will necessarily
move the header and footer in a way that you don't want.
The solution, then, starts with keeping all your pages with portrait
orientation. You then need to present your information in a
landscape table, and this should be easy. Create a table with the
numbers of rows and columns exchanged from what you actually
need. Insert the material into the table cells. Select the text and
go to Format | Character... | Position | Rotation / scaling (or
right-click | Character... | Position | Rotation / scaling), and
select an appropriate value - probably 90 degrees. Your material
will then appear in landscape orientation even though Writer sees the
page as in portrait orientation.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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