Re: [libreoffice-users] Masterdoc/stylesheet struggles...

Oh my god! I thought I missed something in mine! Thank you!

I have an attempt at a manual that I'm working on and the work to synchronize they styles is 
KILLING me.

The logical side of my understanding says that a random page to be incorporated into the master 
needs to use styles that have the same name as the ones in the master originally. So that when the 
master renders the page, it uses the master's settings for each style not the document incorporated 
ones.

Sadly in practice it does not seem to operate that way.

If anybody wanted a wish list item for this part of the system it would be to be able to save style 
settings only that were created as let's say a JSON file and then incorporate it into the master or 
the sub page.

I've tried some clever things like using a blank page with no custom styles as a template that I 
then read in the Styles changed from whatever document I'm working on as the custom ones and then 
save that as my page template to be used at each point. But that quickly gets out of sync.

My objective had been, right or wrong, to have a page template the word processor that I could then 
send to somebody and say "here type up your instructions" and I would take that and incorporate it 
into my manual. The problem is if they touch the Styles it all goes out the window.

It has gotten to the point that I suggest/use a template file in simple markdown as the source 
document with some embedded instructions and then try to flow that into a page with my version of 
styles in it.

I keep thinking that I'm not doing anything new and that someone has already documented the correct 
flow of this process but I've found nothing with all my searching.

The problem Rogier speaks of with the page size changes is, to me, in addition to all the other 
quirks I'm experiencing.

I have gotten to the point of simply printing USLetter sized but using the printer's "2 pages per 
sheet" setting that gives me each page in a USStatement sized 5.5x8.5 inch page which I then cut in 
half for my actual pages.

I'd love to hear/see how others address these problems.


On March 24, 2026 11:37:56 AM EDT, "Rogier F. van Vlissingen" <vliscony@gmail.com> wrote:
> It's been about 25 years since I first produced a book in LibreOffice...
> and I find myself struggling with some issues...
>
> all my (sub)document files us the same style sheet, and the page format is
> set to 5.5x8.5, but the masterdoc insists on 8.5x11???
>
> Also, I found that in the subdocs, I had to import the style sheet, but
> then I had to manually set the page format and also manually to repeat the
> space before and after for the Headings?
>
> Suggestions welcome
>
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