[libreoffice-users] page numbering oddity

Hi. I'm using LO 5.0.1.2 on Mint.

There's an oddity about page numbering, in which differing page styles 
change the start page number and total page count.

So, I start LO and  make, say, a fresh 3-page document, no manual page 
breaks, rather just letting the text flow across page boundaries. On 
each page, I add the page number and page count fields. Comfortingly, 
the pages now say 1/3, 2/3 and 3/3. That's good.

However, I go to the first page, bring up the stylist, and double-click 
"Left Page". The embedded page counts now say 2/4, 3/4 and 4/4. And the 
page indicator on LO's lower bar reflects this, saying I have a 4-page 
document when it's only 3. (The pages have the correct alternating 
Left/Right styles after this)

If I go back to the top, and select either "Default Style" or "Right 
Page", the numbering corrects itself.

If instead, I try to use a First Page style, leading to Right, then 
Left, I get numbering that looks like 1/4, 3/4 and 3/4. No page 2, and 
just plain weird!

I know it's slightly perverse starting with the left page, but I have a 
good reason, and surely this shouldn't make the counts wrong. It looks 
from here that LO has a hard-wired opinion that page 1 is on the right 
of a double-page spread.

The killer is that I can't find an obvious way to fix things up manually 
- can anyone help please? I'm hoping I'm just missing something 
glaringly obvious.

Thanks.

--
Mike Scott
Harlow, Essex, England

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