On Sat, 22 Feb 2020 23:00:36 -0500 (EST) Felmon Davis <dav...@union.edu> wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Feb 2020, Brian Barker wrote: > > > At 17:33 22/02/2020 -0500, Felmon Davis wrote: > >> imagine you have ten consecutive pages all without footer and unnumbered > >> except for pages 3, 5 and 7; on those pages you want a footer and you want > >> a roman numeral, for instance ix on page 3, xi on page 5 and xiii on page > >> 7. inserting a number generates the same numeral on each page. ah, I guess > >> the trick is to do a different page style for 3, 5 and 7. > > > > The usefulness of automatic page numbering, of course, is that you can > > modify > > the text or layout of the document with the page numbers being preserved > > and > > updating appropriately and not being displaced. If you need such a random > > collection of numbers and the document is at a late stage of preparation - > > when changes to the text are less likely - it may be simpler just to > > position > > manual page numbers where the footer would be, without having any footer. > > > > If you need a footer for other information on such pages but want page > > numbers only on some, you can still do this. Create a Frame to contain the > > required page number (it doesn't need to have any border) and ensure that > > it > > is anchored To Page. Position the frame in the footer where is needs to > > appear. Because it is anchored to the page, not to anything within the > > footer, it will not be repeated within the footer on other pages. > > > > The second technique is also more robust to changes in paper size, margins, > > and so on, as well as to font substitution on a foreign system. > > > > I trust this helps. > > very much so! I will try out some of this when I return to the task > tonight or tomorrow. I think I favor the 'frame' approach, basically > just sort of 'paint' the footer in. these numerals do not need to be > automatically updated; quite the contrary, they must be static. > > (perhaps I should ask them why. maybe there's a better way to achieve > their goals but I don't have time to dig too deep.) > > again, thank you. I'll report back. > > f. > > -- > Felmon Davis The automatic page numbering will appear static if no pages are inserted before or between them. If the perception is that "static" page numbers are needed because of references from other locations in the document, there are automatic ways of doing this, where the references update when (if) the page numbers change. -- Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
