[libreoffice-users] Complex page styles for book layout

Hi guys,


I am trying to set up a template for a book, but I am struggling to find a
way to set up the page styles to make them conform to the publisher's style
sheet. Here is what they are asking for:



Preface or Acknowledgements or Dedication begins on page v. Contents begins
on page v if there is no preface, etc., otherwise on the next right-hand
page
Main text (Chapter 1) begins on page 1
All left-hand pages have even numbers
All right-hand pages have odd numbers
In an authored work, begin each new chapter on a new page (right- or left-
hand).
...
Please make sure that neither a running head nor a page number is printed on
the first page of the Preface, Contents, Appendix, Notes, References, Index,
or on the opening page of a new chapter or article.
Place the page numbers at the outer margin, to the left or right.


The main body of the text is ok: you just us the Left page / Right page
styles and everything works fine. I created a new style 'Prefatory' to deal
with the different page numbering system in the preface and made 'Prefatory
left' and 'Prefatory right' to make them alternative between headings. Then
the problems start:

I can make a style 'First Page' for the first page of each chapter which
does not have a header. However, you have to specify a 'Next style' in
Modify... > Organiser > Next Style and in my case this style is Left Page
when the First Page is a right page and right page when it is the other way
around. LibreOffice appears to enforce this next style and you can't
override it manually. In other words, if I have a nice left page / right
page thing going, and I change one left page into 'First Page', the next
style will automatically change to left page and my page numbering goes
horribly wrong. It is also impossible to have chapters of just one page
because it is impossible to have two First Pages following each other. Is
there a way to overrride this?

In other words, I need to find a way to create a stylesheet that:


has two different page numbering systems, one with Roman and one with Arabic
numerals, with different styles for left and right pages
allows the first page of each chapter to have no header at all
allows that first page to occur on a left and a right page
allows for one-page chapters

Ideally, I'd like to accomplish all this in a reasonably elegant way,
without splitting up all my styles into substyles. Anybody knows how that
would work?

Thanks

Rik


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