[Bug 147345] Feature Request: Ability to navigate using document page number if page 1 starts later in document

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147345

--- Comment #9 from Eyal Rozenberg <eyalroz1 at gmx.com> ---
I've never personally used the "Title Pages" mechanism, so I can't really say
something meaningful about those

... except that they are not in very wide use, and at any rate - a lot of the
use-cases for this request regard documents which don't have such title pages.


Another point I'll make is to ask whether Writer even "knows" what the user
considers to be the page number. After all, one can insert multiple "page
number" fields in different places on the page.

But even supposing there is some clear notion of what the page number is, we
need to think about a more complex and general case than just delayed
numbering:

* The document may have several sequences of numbered pages.
* The document may have multiple un-numbered pages, some non-contiguous.
* The page numbers may start at different values - possibly zero or negative
values.
* The page numbers may be non-digits, but other strings.

In fact, one might even go as far as supporting another complication:

* Some sets of disjoint pages may share the same page number.


My intuition says that if one can know at all what "the page number" of a page
is, then the navigation pane text box should show both the page number as it is
styled and manipulated by the document, and the plain-vanilla page number
counted from 1 and ignoring anything and everything. Either we see them size by
side, or with the ability to toggle between them. And it should be possible to
enter a "fancy" page number and get to it.

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