Book page headers for different chapters

[April]

Hi Ajlittoz,

Yesterday started a new Book based on your Mock-up. It was quite easy! Each time I had to make a choice I opened up your page styles to see what you had done. In fact it was a DREAM, a DREAM COME TRUE!

The only change I made was to the Chapter Running Page. I changed the Layout Setting from ‘Right and Left’ to ‘Mirror’. This is so that there is a wider inside margin.

I was surprised that you used the Default Page Style for the first page, rather than modify the First Page in the Page Styles options or insert a title from Format > Title page. I have kept to what you did.

I don’t understand the need for inserting the Title Field in the Left Header. As long as the Header text matches the Title text (as it didn’t before) it doesn’t really matter.

As there have been 202 views in the last 8 days I have attempted a Summary for the benefit of others. I would be grateful if you could let me know if any changes or additions are needed. I changed the name of your ‘Chapter Running Page’ to ‘Chapter Text’ as that conveys the meaning better for me.

[April]

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LAYOUT FOR BOOK WITH DIFFERENT LEFT AND RIGHT HEADERS

Open New Document

Open Page Style options:

Styles > Manage Styles > Page Style (4th icon from left of top menu)

Create a New Style:

Place curser right click on blank part of box and select New. Then modify it as below.

(The Default Page Style comes up automatically)

At the bottom of the Page Styles box, there is a drop-down box for viewing All Styles or just Applied Styles etc.
For BLANK PAGES See Below

TITLE PAGES

To format a title page from the First Page

File > Properties > Description Tab > Title: Enter Title Name

Go to the Title Page/First Page

Insert > Field > Title (your title name will appear)

LEFT PAGE HEADERS (Book Titles)

Insert > Field > Title (your title name will appear if it has already been created for the Title page)

BLANK PAGES

Blank pages are automatically generated.

For example, when text ends on the Right page and is followed by the Chapter First Page (which requires a Right page) LibreOffice will automatically insert a Blank Left page,

HEADING STYLES

Modify a Style

Styles > Manage Styles > Paragraph Styles (1st icon on left of top menu)

Right click on a style, then Modify

Apply a Heading Style

Select words to be changed

Click ‘Styles’ from the main menu

Click required Heading

Hierarchy

Section Title: Heading 1

Chapter First Page: Heading 2

MANUAL PAGE BREAKS

To create a Manual Page Break

Insert > More Breaks > Manual Break

In the Page Style box choose from the drop-down list of styles you have already created in order to insert the page style needed to follow the break.

Manual Breaks are best avoided but can be useful.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Insert > Table of Contents & Index > Table of Contents, Index or Bibliography

Type & Title: Choose what wording you want, such as ‘Contents’

Evaluate up to Level: Change to Level 1 if you just want the Section Titles.

Change to level 2 if you want chapters to be included

Change Table of Contents Layout

On the Table of Contents page you have made, select ‘Contents’ and apply paragraph changes, such as space below.

To adjust the layout of the Section Titles, again select and apply paragraph changes, such a space to right and left or space below.

Ajlittoz Comment on Table of Contents Layout

Your summary is not clear enough about what must be made. But this is quite tricky because various precedences compete against each other.
For the data making a TOC entry , including tab stops , this is controlled, level by level, by the structure line in the Entries tab of the TOC dialog.
The rest of the formatting is done by Contents n paragraph styles (n = level to modify). But tab stops defined in the paragraph style are not used. I recommend to avoid potential conflicts to never define tab stops in the paragraph style.
Thus, to match your initial design I had to set the tab stop in level-2 structure line, change indents and space above/below in Indents & Spacing as well as font properties in Font tabs of Contents 1 .

[ajlittoz]

@April

a DREAM COME TRUE!

You’re welcome.

@April

I was surprised that you used the Default Page Style for the first page

Then it is an error on my part. I wasn’t careful enough. First Page is indeed what I wanted to use for the cover but I might have inserted an incorrect page break after it. You have a “legalese” and copyright page between your cover and the TOC. Since I didn’t know what to do with it, I used Default Page Style by pure laziness. “Logically”, Default Page Style should be the style for the most common part of a book, usually the chapters part. But here I had to decouple the first and subsequent pages and give a specific name to the chapter first page style. So, I also gave a name to the running page style. All “one-of-a-kind” parts should be styled with ad-hoc named styles.

@April

I changed the Layout Setting from ‘Right and Left’ to ‘Mirror’.

One again an error on my part. I noticed you have dissymmetric margins and they make sense in Mirror layout.

@April

I don’t understand the need for inserting the Title Field in the Left Header.

This is a consistency precaution. Should you change your mind about the title of your book, you change it in File>Properties and, magically, the cover and headers everywhere are updated. No need to check with the risk of omitting an occurrence when you’re tired.
Generally speaking, when paragraphs or sequences of words describing a single concept or significance are supposed to always remain the same but are susceptible to change, it is a good idea to store the definition into some property and to use a field to insert the value. You are then guaranteed that the exact wording is the same everywhere.

Regarding your summary:

• Manual page breaks
  Avoid them as much as you can. They’re a kind of direct formatting and manual formatting always plays nasty tricks on your back (sooner or later). Use them only when absolutely necessary (to fit into you significance, but never routinely).
  In the case of your Heading n, page breaks preceding you headings are systematic. Consequently they belong in the Text Flow parameters of the paragraph style. Merely applying the paragraph style will cause the page break to occur, without manual insertion.
• TOC, layout change
  Your summary is not clear enough about what must be made. But this is quite tricky because various precedences compete against each other.
  For the data making a TOC entry, including tab stops, this is controlled, level by level, by the structure line in the Entries tab of the TOC dialog.
  The rest of the formatting is done by Contents n paragraph styles (n = level to modify). But tab stops defined in the paragraph style are not used. I recommend to avoid potential conflicts to never define tab stops in the paragraph style.
  Thus, to match your initial design I had to set the tab stop in level-2 structure line, change indents and space above/below in Indents & Spacingas well as font properties inFont` tabs of Contents 1.

[April]

Hi Ajlittoz,

Thank you very much for your further comments and I’ve updated my Summary as follows.

PAGE STYLES

Updated and Copyright page added.

TITLE NAME

I didn’t know how to add this before (File > Properties > Description} and have now included that.

MANUAL BREAKS

Updated, saying they are best avoided.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

I need to find out more about that. For now I’ve just added your comment so it is all together.

[koyotak]

@April
you can manually change the listed TOCs by clic with right mouse pad into listed area: example is in deutsch

[ajlittoz]

I don’t recommend this method as it can have unexpected results. Use it only for special purpose after all “traditional” methods have failed, mainly the Outline level one.