Re: [libreoffice-users] page numbers and table of contents

Thanks. It seems odd to me that "Next Style" would change the current page.
I suppose I don't understand what "Next Style" does or how it works. Is
that referring to the paragraph style or the page style?


On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 12:34 AM, Brian Barker <b.m.barker@btinternet.com>wrote:

> At 20:18 13/01/2012 -0600, Jeffrey Martin wrote:
>
> > I downloaded what is supposed to be an APA 6 template for open office
> > with a table of contents.  First, ...
>
> First?  Er, I don't see any second ...
>
>  ... how do I get the page numbers to make the first page, which is the
> > title page, page 1, number each table of contents page, and then continue
> > with numbering the body pages?
>
> You mean in one unbroken numbering sequence?  That would be the default
> situation, so your template must be changing that in some way.  The
> template's author took the trouble to make each of three sections restart
> the page numbering; you will have to undo this choice by changing it back.
>
>
> At 21:23 14/01/2012 -0600, Jeffrey Martin wrote:
>
> > Here's the template I'm trying to change.
>
> Your template uses five page styles, called First Page, TOC, Left Page,
> Default, and References.  There are manual page breaks between your three
> sections, and the choice was made to restart page numbering at 1 when these
> were inserted.  You can remove these.
> o Put the cursor in the first paragraph of the table of contents page.
> o Go to Format | Paragraph... | Text Flow | Breaks (or right-click |
> Paragraph... | Text Flow | Breaks).
> o Change "Page number" there to read "0".  (This will remove the offset.)
> o Now go to the top of the first page of the body and repeat the process.
> (You don't need to do this for the new References page style, since this
> does not restart page numbering.)
>
> There is one remaining problem, and this is that the second page of the
> table of contents is wrongly numbered, but this is for a different reason.
>  The first page of the table of contents has TOC page style, but this is
> set to be followed by Left Page page style, which is in turn set to be
> followed by Right Page page style, and so on alternately.  In its original
> state, the template has the table of contents starting on the second page;
> with double-sided printing, this would be on the reverse of the first sheet
> - on its verso (or left-hand page).  Since the second page of the table of
> contents is forced by its Left Page page style also to appear on a verso,
> LibreOffice insists that it has an even page number: imagine, if you like,
> the intervening recto (or right-hand page) to have been skipped.  It's
> numbered 4 instead of 3.  (This condition applies even if you intend to
> print single-sided.)
>
> Since you are unlikely to want such an arrangement (and since both the
> Left Page and Right Page page styles also have unhelpfully different
> margins!), the sensible solution is to give all table of contents pages the
> same TOC page style.  To do this:
> o Put the cursor in the first table of contents page but outside the table
> of contents itself - at the top, that is.
> o Go to Format | Page... | Organizer (or right-click | Page... |
> Organizer).
> o Against Next Style, select TOC (instead of Left Page) from the drop-down
> list.
>
> Your document is now numbered sequentially.  Oh, and you also get a page
> number on the second table of contents page, which was previously missing.
>
> I trust this helps.
>
> Brian Barker
>
>
>
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