Re: [libreoffice-users] Ending a document

At 08:52 21/11/2012 -0500, Dan Lewis wrote:
> On 11/21/2012 06:07 AM, Barry Say wrote:
> > Is it the case that a document **must* *end with a paragraph mark. 
> > I am editing a publication which is a master document and I would 
> > like to specify that for a given sub-document I wish to have 
> > nothing below it on the page but when I insert a page break I am 
> > given another page with a blank paragraph which I do not want. I am 
> > aware of the possibility of specifying that a document must start a 
> > fresh page, but I have tried that in the past and introduced a 
> > non-deletable feature in the master document.
>
> Yes, all documents **must** end with a paragraph mark. Writer 
> documents are written using XML. The "markers" used to format the 
> text are used in pairs. If there is a beginning of a paragraph, 
> there must be an ending of it. The paragraph markers only visually 
> show you where the paragraphs begin and end.

Sorry, but I don't think this argument works (though I'm not 
disputing your first sentence).  The questioner is not suggesting 
that there should somehow be a paragraph that begins but does not 
end.  The last real (non-empty) paragraph will begin and end 
normally.  Then there is a page break.  He wants the document to end 
there; there would be no unbalanced paragraph indicators.  Instead, 
it is apparently required that after the page break there must be an 
additional empty paragraph: a further (and unwanted) balanced pair of 
paragraph indicators, that is.  It would be possible to imagine a 
document without that empty paragraph without offending against your 
requirement for matching indicators.

Brian Barker


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