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I'm using Open Office to format my book for upload to a self-publishing platform, and I'm having trouble getting page styles to behave.
What I want is some front matter with no header, followed by a Table of Contents with no header, a blank page, the first page of text with no header, and then the rest of the book, with page numbers at the top outside corners and the title of the book at the top. The page size is 5.5 x 8.5 (which may change), and I need to leave room on the inside border for the gutter. The book is very brief, so I don't have chapter boundaries, just a few appendices at the back.
In order to achieve this, I started out creating four page styles: front matter left, front matter right, text left, and text right. My problem is that I can't get the page styles to assign properly. Before I created the front matter, I assigned left and right page styles to the whole book (starting at the back) and it looked great. Then I created the front matter and the TOC and assigned front matter left and right page styles to those pages. The front matter page styles cascaded through the entire book. I went to the first page of text to assign the right page style, and the right and left page styles invaded the front matter.
The help page I read suggested putting a manual page break after the front matter, which I did. Didn't help. I haven't even gotten to trying out headers, or figuring out how to prevent the header and page number from appearing on the first page of text. I can't think of anything else to try. I'm kind of stuck, and considering buying Scrivener or some such to do the formatting for me.
Any suggestions? Thanks in advance for all assistance.
Phil W.
Statistics: Posted by philwynk — Tue Nov 05, 2024 12:31 am