[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 126608] Writer: Can't switch to Portrait

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=126608

Mike Kaganski <mikekaganski at hotmail.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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         Resolution|---                         |NOTABUG
             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED

--- Comment #24 from Mike Kaganski <mikekaganski at hotmail.com> ---
(In reply to Todd from comment #23)
> So this is the bug to fix:

Or more likely, something that you misunderstand.

> 
> If I 
> 
>   create a new blank document
>   Format --> Page --> Page --> Landscape

... then you do it wrong, again. You edit the current "Default" page style to
be landscape, *not* applying another style.

What you should have done at this point is not to edit page style, but
understand that it's *paragraph* property that defines which page style to use.
So, you need to edit the very first paragraph of the document, and make it have
"page break before" with desired page style ("Landscape").

> "pm1" and "pm2" are not created properly.

What "pm1" and "pm2" could even mean?

> The pull downs and the sidebars should do EXACTLY the same thing, but they
> don't.

They do - if you understand what they do. Specifically, pull down menu Format
-> Page does exactly the same thing as right-clicking on the name of *current*
page style in the sidebar, and choose "Modify...". Double-clicking a page style
name on a sidebar does exactly the same as I mentioned above: takes the closest
paragraph above that has "page break with page style" (or the very first
paragraph in the document), and sets its referenced page style to the
double-clicked one.

> Also, if this is how you designed it, that the "Format --> Page --> Page"
> method sets the "default style", and the "default Style" becomes what ever
> you set it to, then the bug is that you neglected to add "portrait" and
> remove "Landscape" to the pull down in manual break styles when the default
> style is Landscape (neglected to toggle).   The side bar also need to have
> portrait added and landscape removed in this situation (toggle).  And if
> using the "Format --> Page --> Page" you need to properly create pm1 and pm2.

No, that is not how someone called "you" designed it. Format -> Page isn't
bound to "Default" page style; it opens whatever page style is *current* (i.e.,
active at the place where your cursor is). If you have several page styles
applied to different parts of your document, then it will open one style when
you are on one page, and it will open another style when you are on another.
And you need to understand that landscape/portrait toggle on the page style
settings dialog isn't connected in *any way* with style names. Style names are
just some arbitrary strings, and no one would argue if you will re-define your
"Default" to be landscape-oriented - and that *by no means* should affect other
styles, or their listing in whatever places they are chosen.

> My understanding is that Format --> Page --> Page --> Landscape/Portrait is
> suppose to set the current page and proceeding pages orientation, not set
> the "default style".  The side bar does not set the "default style".

The side bar sets whatever style you click. The sidebar is exactly the place
designed to manage the styles; the Format -> Page is just a shortcut to
properties of *current* page style (whatever it is at this cursor position).

Please *don't* change the issue status. You need to understand the fundamental
concepts here, and the issue here is just a simple NOTABUG.

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