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<body><span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:vstuart.foote@utsa.edu" title="V Stuart Foote <vstuart.foote@utsa.edu>"> <span class="fn">V Stuart Foote</span></a>
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href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128041">bug 128041</a>
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<b><a class="bz_bug_link
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title="UNCONFIRMED - conditional text in header/footer fields turned static"
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128041#c2">Comment # 2</a>
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title="UNCONFIRMED - conditional text in header/footer fields turned static"
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128041">bug 128041</a>
from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:vstuart.foote@utsa.edu" title="V Stuart Foote <vstuart.foote@utsa.edu>"> <span class="fn">V Stuart Foote</span></a>
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<pre>(In reply to ajlittoz from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=128041#c0">comment #0</a>)
<span class="quote">>
> I am presently facing a typographic case where the LAST page of a sequence
> must be formatted differently. This is not the last page of the document
> (which could be detected with the "Next page" field returning a null value).
> Consequently, I added "set variable" fields in the main text flow to toggle
> the state of a flag variable. I use this flag value in a footer to control
> conditional insertion, but it does not work.
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> This special formatting can't be replaced by a page break to an ad-hoc page
> style, because there should be no page break in main text flow. It is really
> only a spot location, not a range, which needs to be flagged, something like
> a note, but in the footer area, not in the note area. And also, it must not
> cause conflicts with notes.
> </span >
So use case seems reasonable--if a bit of a corner case.
Dynamic Conditional text in header/footer per page responding to fielded data
of that page.
Alternatively multiple header/footer objects per document.</pre>
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