Re: [libreoffice-users] Chapters

On Sat, 2012-03-17 at 18:41 +0700, John Francis Lee wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've found a bilingual plain text copy of Wizard of Oz and have set up 
> the individual chapters, right page/left page with chapter headings. I 
> found the illustrations as well and will print them separately in color 
> and just insert them as right pages.
>
> But how do I put all the individual chapters together to make the book?
>
> All the chapters begin with a right hand page. I thought I could just 
> insert each chapter, add a blank left page if need be... although I 
> thought LibreOffice might be smart enough to put a left page betwen two 
> right pages... until I was finished.
>
> If I insert the files into a new file LibreOffice gets stupid and tries 
> to use the style settings from Chapter 1 for the whole book... it looks 
> like.
>
> I tried inserting the chapters as so-called sections, but LibreOffice 
> got stupid again and used its own idea of style to format the thing.
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
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     What you need to do is use Master Documents. The Writer Guide
contains a chapter on this topic. Link to this guide below:
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications.
     (FYI: The Writer Guide was written in chapters which were then
combined using Master Documents.)



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