[Bug 161078] Allow direct formatting for page sequences instead of editing the style

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161078

V Stuart Foote <vsfoote at libreoffice.org> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from V Stuart Foote <vsfoote at libreoffice.org> ---
>From the Writer Guide (24.2) [1][2]:
"Page styles control page properties (margins, page size, header and footer,
among others). However, unlike paragraphs, characters, and frames, pages can
not have directly applied properties. If you change the properties of a page,
you are actually changing the underlying page style, so those changes are
applied to all pages that use that page style. To change the properties of
individual pages, you need to create a new page style. Headers and footers can
be specified in one style to be different on left or right pages or first
pages."

So we directly format when we apply a page style other than what the current
Page 'Organizer' tab "Next style", or a Paragraph 'Text Flow' tab "Breaks"
defines. It is just a question of the how applied attributes of a page are
grouped together and manipulated during document editing/layout and on export
to ODF.

In the UI, we can fully modify a page style from the Page Style... dialog or
partially from the Page deck's content panels of the Sidebar. 

So we can manually force insert a page break onto a page with a different
style.
And that may be an existing page style, or have made a modification of an
existing page style into a new page style that reflows the page--orientation,
margin, layout, etc. attributes as found fully on the tabs of the Page style
dialog. Noting the Sidebar Page deck omits some of the attributes.

Absent Page style inheritance, bug 41316, each Page style requires its own
style and only a defined "own style" [3] has meaning to be able to reuse from
list box or the F11 Stylist in current document or as saved to template
document.

=-ref-=
[1] https://documentation.libreoffice.org/en/english-documentation/ Writer
Guide 24.2
[2] Byfield's Designing With LibreOffice treats page styles well.
[3]
https://help.libreoffice.org/24.2/en-US/text/swriter/guide/pageorientation.html?DbPAR=WRITER

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