Re: [Feature Request] Page renumbering

From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Fri Mar 01 2002 - 10:58:09 GMT

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    On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, ephemeron wrote:

    > I hope this is the proper forum for this sort thing.
    >
    > An option to have the automatic page numbering start at a number other
    > than 1 would be useful feature for those writing long documents like,
    > say, a novel or an epic poem.
    >
    > Such writing projects are easier to manage if they're broken up into
    > smaller chapters. The problem is in having one chapter "inherit" a
    > previous chapter's numbering scheme. If Chapter 1 ends on page 24,
    > Chapter 2 should begin on page 25, rather than page 1.
    >
    > I see no option to do this automatically in Abiword.
    >

    We can do this in abiword 0.99.2.

    Choose format from the menu
    Then format Header/foooter.
    Click on restart page numbering/ choose then number.

    No Problem :-)

    You can restart number of pages after every section break just like MS
    Word.

    Cheers

    Martin

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