[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 117231] There is no way to suppress Writer inserting blank pages to make page No. 1 a right-hand page (Formatting)

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=117231

--- Comment #4 from A.Holtsmark <holtsmark at gmx.net> ---
The problem is that when writing the document with two pages visible at the
same time, using book mode is the only way to get writer to display the
document with left- and right-hand pages correctly positioned on the screen.
Writer acheives this by putting the first page in the document to the right and
leaving an empty space to the left of it.
This means that all other viewing modes will put what in print will become the
right-hand page to the left and the left hand page of the next page pair to the
right. This makes formatting any document that will be printed in book-form (as
in a pile of paper connected on one side), but which does not follow the
convention of page nr. 1 to the right, very difficult.

As explained earlier: Our technical documentation uses a more complex page
numbering consisting of CHAPTER.SUBCHAPTER-PAGENUMBER. Each new SUBCHAPTER
starts with PAGENUMBER = 1. 

This must be so, so that inserting a new page somewhere in the middle of
document will not result in all further pages of the document having to be
replaced only because all page numbers must increase by 1. 

Since sunbhapters are only a few pages long, this means that, with the current
situation, there will be very many blank pages inserted. 


Our current work-around is not to use "book mode", to view two pages at a time,
and to add an empty page in front of the document. This empty page must then be
deleted every time we wish to print the document, and this carries the risk of
screwing up the formatting of the whole document.

The basic problem here is one of assuming that EVERYBODY that writes a document
that will be printed and bound into book form will ALWAYS want a page No. 1 to
be a right-hand page. I am trying to convey the information that this
assumption is incorrect for some types of documents.

I have found some very old threads lamenting over this problem, but have not
been able to find an open bug/enhancement-report

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