Re: [libreoffice-users] Logic of headers (and footers) or my lack of it!

Looking at your requirements I was curious if using captions for the
images could give you what you want.
If the caption was the name of the document then you can handle the
different cases of single image documents vs multi-image documents in
a straight forward way;
Single image caption is just the name of the document.
A document spanning two images would have the name of the document and
which page it is.
There is perhaps a bonus also in that you could generate a table of
images at the front of the document which uses the caption text and
offers the option to create an internal link to the page with the
image.
Just a thought.

Best wishes,

Drew

On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 3:18 PM Harvey Nimmo <harvey@nimmo.de> wrote:
> Hello Regina,
>
> Thanks for taking the trouble to offer help.
>
> Perhaps if I describe my 'case' it will help to see where I am coming
> from. I wanted to define a header for each page that is either a
> copy of the previous header or a new one.
>
> The application in my current case is collection of handwritten court
> papers (from 1813) that I want to transcribe. The originals are in
> jpeg. Some are just single sheets, some sheets are left and right pages
> together, some are just snippets. Obviously the order is
> important, and the source names of the jpeg files serve very well as a
> header that should not of itself belong the the transcription text.
> hence my simple requirement.
>
> It was a deliberate choice to try to use the header feature (rather
> than headings within the body of the text) because it made sense to me
> to keep the metadata (i.e. file names of each sheet) separate from the
> actual content of each sheet. In the end, I would have a complete LO
> text document in which each page was headed with the file name to
> identify its source and a page full of text showing the textual content
> of each sheet. The resulting document would evidently contain 29 pages
> with about 20 different headers.
>
> I was expecting some simple implementation but, to my surprise, did not
> find such. In the meantime Remy has made a suggestion that show how
> much more complex it could be, than expected.
>
> Greetings
> Harvey
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, 2020-05-30 at 22:49 +0200, Regina Henschel wrote:
> > Harvey Nimmo schrieb am 30-May-20 um 18:54:
> > > My intention was to use the header function to describe each page
> > > of a
> > > 29 page document separately, with a couple of exceptions where two
> > > pages may have the same header.
> >
> > What do you mean by "describe"? There exists some variables like
> > chapter
> > number and text, that will adapt automatically to the content of the
> > page.
> >
> > > I thought that it would just be a simple question of telling the
> > > header
> > > of each page to copy (or not) the header of the previous page. How
> > > mistaken could I be?!!
> >
> > ?? You really need to describe more detailed the desired content of
> > the
> > "header".
> >
> > Kind regards
> > Regina
>
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