[Bug 35694] "Page number" automatic field stops counting before last page if offset >0 (see comment 22)

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35694

--- Comment #68 from Mike Kaganski <mikekaganski at hotmail.com> ---
(In reply to Eyal Rozenberg from comment #65)
> (In reply to Mike Kaganski from comment #61)
> > In LibreOffice, the page number is set through properties of a page break.
> 
> Which is a problem, as it doesn't cover the first page;
It does. The very first paragraph can have the page break with respective
properties as well.

> nor does it allow for defining a progression rule for page numbers;
Why *page number is set through properties of a page break* is the problem
here? It is completely orthogonal. The mechanism is lacking completely, but can
be implemented there as well.

> nor does it properly cover the case of implicit page transitions,
No idea what does that mean.

> paragraphs which begin on a new page,
Same here - no idea what could this be in the frame of the topic.
But maybe better to discuss elsewhere anyway.

> But again, I believe that's a different discussion for a different and
> perhaps deeper bug. This bug is about working with the page numbering
> mechanism LO has right now.
Agree.

Now to the topic. Note that the wish to show numbers outside of the existing
range is wrong *in principle*. There is bug 149480; please think about it. The
page field must not show any "random" number: it must show the number
*flexibly* assigned to a specified page. Only having that page physically, can
you know what page number is assigned to it - it could be an arbitrary number,
say, 1 again (because user specified that manually). Its type may be arbitrary,
say, Roman or Arabic.

So no, there is *no* meaningful number in an absent page, which a field could
show.

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