[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 136348] Too many ways of setting page styles (to portrait)

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136348

--- Comment #5 from Justin L <jluth at mail.com> ---
The key to understanding is to focus on the content.

The blue bar is a "force a page break right now" based on my content,
regardless of how full the page is. So the blue bar itself has nothing to do
with page styles necessarily. The "right now" needs to be tied to something -
and that something is a paragraph. (And it logically makes sense to allow a
different page style to be defined on the command that starts a new page, so
thus you can also define a page style change with this.)

First/follow is used when you don't have a "right now" point where the page
needs to change. You just want it to change whenever this first page is full -
regardless of the content.

In the end, this isn't something driven by developer logic, but simply document
layout logic. With only two page-change mechanisms, it isn't terribly
confusing.

Although I will admit (since I also experience it) that until you grasp this it
is terribly confusing when you try to mix and match the two.
1.) set Landscape page style to use default style as next. 
2.) create a four page document (all using the default page style).
3.) put your cursor somewhere in page 3 and then double-click on Landscape page
style

Result? Page one becomes Landscape, and pages 2-4 are Default style (portrait).

Ultimately, that DOES make sense because there are no hard page breaks defined,
so page style changes apply to a "section" and not to a cursor point. If you
really want to have Landscape start on page 3, you need to first need to make a
hard-page-break (Ctrl-break) to indicate where page 3 must start (defining
content flow), and then apply a style to it.

So I think it really helps if you look at this as a two-piece problem.  First
is where do I want my pages to start (ctrl-break) and then what should the page
look like.

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