Mr. CPH,
Thank you very much for your reply.
How do I reset page headers?
I found something under 'Tools | Outline Numbering' that merits mention. This panel allows me to associate a 'level' with the Paragraph Styles I'm using as "headings".
The level 1 seems to correspond to a Chapter.
The Chapter title is taken from the heading text. I simply insert the Chapter field (variable) into the page header, and the heading text is printed.
The Chapter field is reset each time the pagination software reaches my Chapter heading in the body of the text.
It works like a charm. Thanks.
There is no separate concept of Section breaks. This is all done implicitly in the 'Outline Numbering' dialog. You are required by law to associate a 'level' with the Paragraph Style you are using as headings.
If you don't, you get no Chapter breaks.
Chapters get automatic Page breaks.
Pagination is not dependent on the Page Style. Page Style has nothing to do with Chapter breaks. You can add page header/footers to the 'Default' page style if you want and everything works fine. It is a mistake to imply, as you do in the documentation, that your custom Page Style, which you might call "New Chapter" will reset the Chapter title, even if you expilcitly insert a Manual Page break naming your custom style.
1) You need to build an outline first using Paragraph Styles.
2) You need to associate an outline 'level' with your headings.
3) Now you can put the Chapter 'Title' field into the page headers. Level 1 is hardwired into the software as a 'Chapter break' which gets a new page.
Only problem is I need finer control over the Chapter variables. I have not only 'Title' but also 'Voice' and 'Meaning' (which I would like to print on alternate margins on Left and Right pages. BTW, that works great too: each page of a "left and right" style has its own page header/footer. No need to check the page number, OO does that for you. Cool.)
[And, I don't need the Chapter heading in the body of the text, just in the page headers.]
I've attached the document as it currently stands for anybody who wants to take a look.
I think the solution might be found in document "variables", but, as always, the documentation dances around the subject like it was on fire. We are simply not speaking the same language.
I need to know if I can define variables with Chapter scope. Then I could put these variables in the alternating left/right headers and everything should work, in theory.
1) How do I create a chapter variable.
2) How do I assign it a value.
It seems to me you are confusing two streams of data to your own disadvantage. The first stream is the document itself. You can view it in Normal, Page and Print Preview.
The second stream is metadata. You need an Outline View which displays the logical, section structure. This is where I'd expect to find chapter variables... and page headers/footers.
I'll take a closer look at 'Navigator' when I get home.
(All the more reason to drop the slick marketing jargon, like "stylist" and "navigator" in favor of more intuitive names, like Syle Catalog, and Outline View)
Thanks for the tip.
I'm very happy.
Joe
PS
What is a docbook? I'm creating my document and using everything default. .swx is a zipped file of xml. Is that a docbook?
CPHennessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Monday 01 August 2005 10:29, Joe Schaffner wrote:
> "A Chapter is a sequence of pages..."
>
> 1) I create a new Page Style called 'verb' using 'default' as a Style.
> Next Style defaults to 'verb'. I guess this means each additional page
> of this "section" will have the same style as the first. How does the
> pagination machinery distinguish between one verb and the next?
have a look at the Stylist documentation at
http://documentation.openoffice.org
> 2) I use 'Insert | Manual Break | Page Break Style = verb' to create
> an instance of 'verb', call it ÁÃÁÐÉÅÌÁÉ, and enter some data.
>
> 3) I use 'Insert | Manual Break | Page Break Style = verb' to create
> the next verb.
>
> 4) The new verb has the old title in header. If I change it, it
> changes the first verb. Therefore, inserting a manual Page Style break
> does not insert a new Section.
>
> - Does the Page Style 'Front Page' imply anything? Could 'Front Page'
> reset the page header for the Chapter?
>
> I don't think so, because an example in IntroStyles.pdf uses 'Right
> Page' as the first page of the chapter (I guess they want all chapters
> to begin on a right page, but I don't). I tried it; it doesn't work.
>
> - Does a new instance of any custom page style reset the page headers
> for the "section" which follows? I seem to be using "custom page
> style" for "section".
Is your header defined to take a custom string or the last header/chapter
name ?
> - Is the software broken?
I doubt it.
[snip veerrrrrrry long email]
Joe, please remember that if you keep your questions short, with the questions
obvious, then you will have a better chance of several answers. And of course
the m! ore answers the more probability of an acceptable answer.
Also it looks like you are using docbook format. Why not import your docbook
into OOo to see what it looks like.
--
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