On 6/11/13, RGB ES <rgb.m...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2013/6/11 Alexandro Colorado <j...@oooes.org>
>
>> I found odd that you can select a paragraph or sentence and apply a
>> specific style, but you cant select a page and apply a specific style,
>> is there a way that this can be done?
>>
>
> No. Writer is not a DPT program like Scribus (page layout based), but use
> the paradigm of content flow where pages are just a "content containment".
> Pages are not "objects" by itself so you cannot select them: it is possible
> to classify them with page styles, and group them with page breaks, but
> nothing else. Note that this behaviour is not either wrong nor right, it's
> just a different way of thinking documents. Writer is best suited when
> automated formatting (text books with lots of headings, for example) is
> possible, Scribus is best suited when direct control (magazines,
> photography books...) of layout elements is a must. For each need, a tool
> ;)

Draw uses the same paradigm. However you get a message if you want to
apply it to the rest of the 'slides/pages'.

I wouldn't think is too wrong to apply the reverse. Like a dialog
saying if you want to apply it to only the current page.

>
> Regards
> Ricardo
>
>
>
>>
>> On 6/11/13, RGB ES <rgb.m...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > 2013/6/11 Henry Tiquet Leyva <henry.tiquet.le...@gmail.com>
>> >
>> >> Hello everyone,
>> >> I would like begin to modify the AOO code and I think to begin with
>> >> the
>> >> page orientation (Writer).
>> >> The idea is to create a button on the toolbar for change the page
>> >> orientation with a click.
>> >>
>> >> I would like to know what code manipulates the orientation page in
>> >> Writer.
>> >>
>> >
>> > Please, note that on Writer there is no direct formatting for pages,
>> > they
>> > can only be formatted through page styles. To insert a different page
>> > layout between two other pages you need to insert two page breaks with
>> > change of page style.
>> >
>> > Maybe this feature request is of interest for you ;)
>> >
>> > Bug 119355 - Making Page Breaks more visible and easy to modify
>> > https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=119355
>> >
>> > Regards
>> > Ricardo
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >>
>> >> Regards.
>> >>
>> >
>>
>>
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>> Alexandro Colorado
>> Apache OpenOffice Contributor
>> http://es.openoffice.org
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