Re: Pagination

[Brian Barker <b....@btinternet.com>]

At 14:38 28/05/2017 -0700, Girvin Herr wrote:
>On 05/28/2017 04:22 AM, Martin Groenescheij wrote:
>>Go to Insert -> Header once the Header is inserted place your mouse 
>>inside the Header and go to Insert -> Fields -> Page Number. If you 
>>double click the page number it opens a menu where you can set the 
>>number format, at the bottom you see a field to set the Offset. If 
>>you set this to -1 it start numbering page two as 1 etc.
>
>Martin,
>AOO 4.1.3; Slackware Linux 14.2.
>I don't use a Mac, but when I use your process, and I change 
>anything in the popup menu and return, the page number disappears 
>and only the grey field indicator remains. Bug?

If you set the offset to -1 as suggested, the second page - if you 
get that far - should display page number 1, as claimed. The first 
page still has the field, but does indeed show no page number. But 
what would you have it do? Surely you don't want a page zero? I don't 
see that as a bug.

If you want page numbers to show as greater values than their natural 
sequence, you will want to set a positive offset. If you do that, 
early page numbers show as expected, but no number is shown where the 
offset page number would be greater than the actual number of pages 
in the document. For example, if you have five pages and use an 
offset of (plus) 2, the pages are numbered 3, 4, and 5 - as expected 
- but the last two pages are not numbered at all. You might consider 
that a bug.

A more reliable way to have page numbers offset positively is to use 
"Change page number" when inserting a manual page break - as you 
would often wish to do anyway after a front page or after multiple 
pages of front matter. You can restart numbering at any positive, 
non-zero value, and the problem described above does not occur: page 
numbers can appear that exceed the actual number of pages in the document.

(Interesting though this is, it is actually tangential to the 
original query, which was just about suppressing the number on the 
first page but having page numbering thereafter following the actual 
page number - so starting with "2" on page two.)

Brian Barker  


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