Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Fwd: Why new page style after manual page break changes all pages?

It looked to me like Brian had a good handle, and that I had missed
something. I think if I followed what he was saying, the key is to put
in a manual break first, and I must have missed that.

Regards,

On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 1:19 PM, anne-ology <laginnis@gmail.com> wrote:
>        Dale ... Nino ... & others in the know -
>
>        Please explain how this works -
>             I think I've been doing it wrong;
>          your methods sound to be a shortcut which sure would keep the
> pages in line.
>
>        Thanking you now, I'll be eagerly awaiting further details along
> this line,
>
>
>
> From: Dale Erwin <dale.erwin@casaerwin.org>
> Date: Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 7:54 PM
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Fwd: Why new page style after manual
> page break changes all pages?
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org
>
>
> On 4/22/2014 7:35 AM, Nino Novak wrote:
>
>  On 21.04.2014 22:30, Dale Erwin wrote:
> > [...]
> >
> >  I have never had this problem and have never had the need to create
> > > sections.  Maybe it's because I always use page styles alternating from
> > > right page to left page and back.  For instance, I begin a book with a
> > > page
> > > style called "Title", marked as right page only and set the next page
> > > style
> > > to "Copyright".  I set the Copyright style to left page only and the next
> > > style as FrontMatterRight.  I set the FrontMatterRight style to right page
> > > only and next style as FrontMatterLeft and set the FrontMatterLeft style
> > > to
> > > left page only and next style to FrontMatterRight.  This puts me in a
> > > loop,
> > > and to break out of the loop I insert a manual page break and check the
> > > option to change the style.  I also set the FrontMatter styles to use
> > > lower
> > > case roman numerals for page numbering and I can change the page numbering
> > > at the same time as I break out of the loop with the insert manual page
> > > break.
> > Isn't what you describe exactly creating sections (even if you call it
> > "page
> > break with changing style" or whatever)?
> >
> > Nino
>
> I should hope not.  On the Insert menu there is an option for Manual Break
> and an option for Section.  Why would that be considered the same thing?
>  And, if it is, why are two options necessary?
>
> Dale Erwin
>
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