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Summary

This page sums up the "already work in progress" on the Page Break Indicators and Header/Footer Indicators in Writer.

Topic Team Member
Development
Cedric Bosdonnat
Design (User Experience)
Christoph Noack
QA
(todo)
Accessibility
(todo)
Documentation
(todo)
Other Contributions
Astron, Cor Nouws, Olivier R., Regina Henschel

Design

Header/Footer Indication

Motivation based on customer feedback:

Requirements and Constraints

Definition "Basic Header/Footer Indication"

Behavior

The core ideas. The header / footer:

Cases:

Note: One additional change affects the selection of pictures anchored to headers / footers when editing the document content. If the user edits the document text, then ...

Structure

Structure of the header / footer indicators:

Consequently, the affected / non-affected elements:

Indicator Design

Just an example, since it is already implemented ...

Design Whiteboard Writer SpecialIndicators 2011-09-09 DailyBuild HeaderFooterTest ImprovementProposals.png

Document Margin Design

According to previous discussions in the OpenOffice.org User Experience Team, document margin lines will be shown as L-marks at the edge of the editing area. See Option 3, Document Border, OOo Wiki.

Definition "Interactive Header Footer Indication

Behavior

todo: Add the description

Motivation:

Example: if the user just hovers (not clicks):

Note: Consider Michael's "mouse pointer movement" idea.

Comment: What idea was that? Can you give a link, so we don't lose this information? --Astron 2011-10-22T22:20:45 (CEST)

Page Break Indication

Motivation: We aim to a) improve its visibility, and b) provide simple access to most used functionality via a drop-down menu. The page break indicator replaces the old "non-printing border on the new page" (see recent LibreOffice Writer help).

Requirements and Constraints

Discussion Thread "Hiding/Showing the page breaks in writer" on libreoffice-ux-advise

Definition "Basic Page Break Indication"

Behavior

The core ideas: The page break indicator ...

The "page break drop-down menu" contains the menu entries:

Examples

The following examples show the page break indication in LTR text direction.

Example for normal pages view (page break between the two pages):

        |                             |
        |                             |
        +-----------------------------+
     br>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
        +-----------------------------+
        |                             |
        |                             |
        |                             |

Example for normal pages view with Notes Side Pane (page break between the two pages):

        |                             |         |
        |                             |         |
        +-----------------------------+---------+
     br>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
        +-----------------------------+---------+

        |                             |         |
        |                             |         |


Example #1 for book mode (page break before the left page):

     br>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
        +-----------------------------+------------------------------+
        |                             |                              |
        |                             |                              |
        |                             |                              |


Example #2 for book mode (page break before the right page):

 
                                      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br
        +-----------------------------+------------------------------+
        |                             |                              |
        |                             |                              |
        |                             |                              |

Example for side-by-side mode (page break before the lower right page):

 

        |                             |   |                              |
        |                             |   |                              |
        |                             |   |                              |
        +-----------------------------+   +------------------------------+

        +-----------------------------+ br>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
        |                             |    |                              |
        |                             |    |                              |
        |                             |    |                              |

Indicator Design

Proposals:
Design Whiteboard Writer Special Indicators PageBreak Indicator Proposals.png

Version (3) has been selected for implementation. Details:

Design Whitboard Writer SpecialIndicators PageBreak Details.png

And the small icon: Design Whitboard Writer SpecialIndicators PageBreak Icon.png

Definition "Interactive Page Break Indication"

This description extends the definition "Basic Page Break Indication".

The motivation is to solve the following issues:

todo: Add description

Column Breaks

This description extends the definition "Interactive Page Break Indication".

todo: Add description

Implementation

Development Status

Currently being implemented are the definitions:

Available in the LibreOffice daily builds ... check it out!

Known Issues

Header Footer Indication:

Page Break Indication:

Open Points

General:


Header/Footer Indication:


Page Break Indication:

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