comprehensive page numbering

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#1

Instruction are horrible for what I need to do. I am going to present my question as an example.

  1. I start with a title page “The Man”. No page numbering.
  2. Second page begins my book. I want pages to start on page one.
  3. After ten pages I want to have a page called “Chapter Two.” No page numbering.
  4. I want to resume my book on page 12 and would like the page numbering to resume on page 12.
  5. Repeat.

A word processor should have instructions on how to make a book.
A book is not a complicated piece of machinery.
All we are missing is for someone to have the patience to explain it “once the first time.”
Once the procedure is put into writing, everyone will have it.

#2

Instruction are horrible for what I need to do.

Which instructions are you referring to? Do you realize that your question is in fact horrible itself, not explaining what you failed to do? You described your goal, but that is documented in hundreds of places, from built-in help, to documentation linked from GET HELP in the home page, to many answers here, or elsewhere on the Internet. Well, they are not focusing on “When @alpha10709 starts writing their book, they should click this button, then enter this value on that box” - rather, they try to describe something more general; the documentation is written by volunteers, and when an alpha comes and starts bashing others, not even telling “I tried this, and this, and here is the unclear piece…” - it’s laughable.

#3

Note that the question that you likely try to ask is not about page numbering, but about page styling, and joining the styling to the content, which leads to text styling (paragraph styles). That is a fundamental topic in Writer, and you are wrong that there should be some “explanation how to make a book”, suitable for all. The documentation on Writer covers the topics, allowing one to start understanding what they do, not being a monkey pressing keys.

Other nice pieces of reading are e.g. To Tame a Writer, and Designing with LibreOffice.

#4

I see I failed to put my frustration into context. My apologies. I had been working on my page numbering problem for four hours. When I wrote to LibreOffice for help I had reached maximum exhaustion. I might revisit comprehensive page numbering somewhere down the road. Though I have no computer aptitude, I might have some technical writing skills. Maybe I can help you some day-- free of charge. For example, when somebody as dense as myself learns to do something, his first instinct is to share that breakthrough with other people. For now I convert my document into RTF and put it on another computer that I am more familiar with. Peace to all of you fine people.

#5

All we are missing is a bit more patience to read the docs and to search for it.
I assume you have read the Documentation on writer from LibreOffice.org, but maybe the following link is new to you: Hints on page numbers at forum.openoffice.org

Basic point is: You need different page-styles for the dkfferent sections.

J.

#6

Specifically read help on page numbers and Numbering pages in the Writer Guide from documentation.

#7

You defer to many answers but are willing to sit down
with your inner ignorance and turn fog into rain.

Maybe LibreOffice can’t do comprehensive page numbering.
That’s okay. But again you keep deferring and deferring
to other people’s answers but do not understand the
question yourself.

When the answer is understood, you can go back and
remove all the answers that don’t make sense.
Have you done that? Have you made LibreOffice as
right as rain?

#8

You demonstrate here you don’t even try to understand things work.

What you have written counts as a solution to your question. Does it really solve the question? If so, I doubt you know what a book is because there as as many book structures as authors. Making Writer click-button-ready would freeze its capabilities to a single book form.

Also we are not the LO developers. We are only other users who read the existing documentation and gained experience by applying it to practice documentation first and our real documents next. We now share this knowledge.

This site has already answered ad nauseam to similar questions. Have you tried the search box? All answers boil down to: reflect your book structure (the various parts with specific page layout) into page styles. That’s all, simple and versatile.

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