[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 33304] Header / Footer should be inserted into margin, not into text body

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33304

--- Comment #55 from Wolfgang Jäger <jag at psilosoph.de> ---
>From Comment #54:

"4. Habit/least surprise principle problem: when users decide to add a
header/footer to a document with content, users expect (out of habit, or
because it just seems logical) that the pages will keep their current content,
and the added headers/footers would not reduce the page body area."

I am NOT coming from MS Word. Nonetheless the mentioned expectation doesn't
look "just funny" to me. However, I would NOT judge it to be "LOGICAL". 

Reasons:
To get it consistent under the given rationale (unchanged content of the page's
textbody area) the changed behaviour to insert a newly enabled header and
additionally the height of space (distance from text body) into the area
previously forming the visible margin WOULD REQUIRE to also shift the top of
the header's area uppwards if an additional line or paragraph was inserted or
the fontsize of the header was increased and 'AutoFit height' was enabled. 

The change would also require to specify the substituting behaviour in a way
"expected out of habit or {seeming} logical" for the case that the margin not
is high enough to take the insertion. 

(Of course, we need at the same time to regard thze footers.)

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