[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 80270] FORMATTING: if a Table of contents (TOC) in Writer is over two pages, it is impossible to change page style of the second page

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80270

Mike Kaganski <mikekaganski at hotmail.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|---                         |INVALID

--- Comment #6 from Mike Kaganski <mikekaganski at hotmail.com> ---
(In reply to pierre-yves samyn from comment #5)
> What's missing:
> - Click the 1st paragraph of the second index page and then do Insert> More
> Breaks> Manual break (to choose the page style).
> - Or edit the same 1st paragraph text flow.
> 
> Manual page break works in my sample file because I unchecked the index
> protection against manual changes but:
> 
> - this is not the default value of this option
> - it's lost when the index is updated.

Which is the only way it should be. ToC is not just any text, it's an
auto-generated field. The same way, you may only mark some part of ToC bold or
add your custom text there only removing the protection; and the same way it is
reverted when index is regenerated. A "paragraph" in ToC which you make
breaking with a page style doesn't exist when ToC is regenerated: ToC does not
edit its paragraphs, it creates them anew. Say, you changed chapter headings;
rearranged the chapters; added new or removed existing. Which paragraph in the
new ToC is the paragraph you modified in the old ToC?

> In any case, I fully agree that, as it works with the page style sequencing,
> we classify this request as INVALID.
> 
> To tell the truth, I don't remember or understand why I supported this
> request :)

:-) So let's do it.

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