Chapters & Appendicies at Same Level
I have a document that has Parts, Chapters, and Appendices. The chapters are subdivisions of the Parts, and the Appendices are by themselves. Unfortunately, I'm matching an existing design style, so some of the more quirky needs can't easily be rewritten unless there's absolutely no workaround.
Here's a quick dummy example:
Structure:
Part I: PName1
Chapter 1: CName1
Chapter 2: CName2
Part II: PName2
Chapter 3: CName3
Appendix A: Reference Stuff
ToC:
Part I
Chapter 1: CName1
Chapter 2: Cname2
Part II
Chapter 3: CName3
Appendix A: Reference Stuff
Part, Chapter, and Appendix each have their own custom paragraph style. In Chapter Numbering, Part is assigned to Level 1, Appendix to Level 2, and Chapter to Level 3.
On the Table of Contents, I use 3 levels and 2 paragraph styles: Level 1: Part (Style1, entry name omitted) Level 2: Appendix (Style1, entry name present) Level 3: Chapter (Style2)
This gets the desired results out of the ToC above, but isn't getting me anywhere with the footer pagination.
At the bottom of each page, I want to indicate which section the reader is in, according to one of two formats: Before the Appendices:
Part I | CName1
In the Appendices:
Appendix A | Reference Stuff
Essentially, the Appendices are treated as a Part with only one Chapter in both the ToC and footer.
Your approach introduces a "twist" in Writer understanding you document structure. By assigning level 2 to appendices, you workaround the limitation that a level can have only one numbering "style". But your appendices seem to be level 1, the same as your parts.
Then, as can be seen in the Navigator, Appendix A is included in Part II. When using the Navigator to move around outline blocks (e.g. you want to have Part II before Part I), you also move unintended blocks. This inconvenient does not occur with my solution because I have created a new "instance" of level 1 with my custom Appendix1 style attached to level 1 independent of the Heading n family.