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So, you define your styles, call some of them headers if you want, and then define your auto-flows using styles. If your first chapter is titled 'A Dark And Stormy Night,' you can have that appear in the MS as 'Chapter 1: A Dark and Stormy Night,' and you separately control how it appears in the generated table of contents. It's cool, just go with it.ДЄn auto-flow lets you control boilerplate text. For instance, the table of contents is set by things called auto-flows, not header styles. There are certain Mellel concepts that seem confusing on first glance. Changes I make all go in one place, not format changes in Vellum that may not get replicated back in the source word processing file for later exports to Vellum. What I like about that, assuming I ever actually write an ebook, is that I can use a powerful editor that outputs to epub. For epub, you get control over the spine. The first installment covers Apple Pages, the second goes through Vellum, and the third installment covers InDesign and Affinity Publisher.

#Scribus page numbers series

He recently released a three part series on creating ebooks. Who radio script writer and gentleman raconteur, has a Youtube channel called 58 Keys. My ramblings are probably not very useful either, but maybe it will show someone else that you CAN have title pages without a footer and start page count on the page that you want.William Gallagher, Dr.

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I still don't have full understanding on how it is supposed to be used. You'd think that Format Page Style is the way to go, but there is something very non intuitive about this business. Page Style allows me to set a page to some style.

I used format Paragraph and Text Flow, Breaks. All worked out pretty good but for the darn page numbering.

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(EMACS are just too much work to get into from scratch, plus I like to see what I will get.) Decided that most everything I need is in Libra Office and set out to create the guide. It however lacks too many fundamental features which makes it too much of a pain to work around them. I started using Scribus since I'm used to typesetting tools. Sometimes the footer would show up on page one and others not.

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What is confusing is how to decide that the footer (or page possibly) is an index, footnote, default or other as the footer is named one of those. After a day of following every imaginable path I can but come to the conclusion that either it's buggy or at the very least incredibly non intuitive. I have three title pages with a dozen normal pages, images inserted all over. I've been going batty trying to get proper page numbering.

extension to handle page numbering more conveniently.

tips regarding page numbering by Hagar Delest from OOo forums.

But for such a scenario, the 'real' cross reference feature is much more powerful than the offset feature.

Regarding offset: You could use offset as a sort of cross reference to a page before or after the current page. Notice that a page break is a property of the first paragraph 'after the page break': it's this paragraph that holds the information that there's a page break before it, which page style to use after that break, and which page number to apply. You should use pages styles and page breaks.

use different numbering styles for different parts of your document (preface with roman numbers, main matter with arabic numbers.).

make Writer start with with any other number than 1.

If you want to modify the page numbering, for example to Especially, it isn't suitable to modify the page numbering in a consistent way: even if you set an offset, a table of contents still will use the 'real' numbering, ignoring the offset. I can hardly think of a use case where the offest feature would be really useful. It seems that the 'offset' feature causes heavy confusion for many users. Now, you can specify a custom page number. Go to Menu Format -> Paregraph -> Text Flow -> Breaks -> Insert -> With Page Style. Instead, edit the properties of the first paragraph at the first page of your document. Don't use the Offset if you want to start with a certain page number.