Re: [Docutils-users] Custom header/footers not working for rst2odt

[Bryan V. <bry...@gm...>]

Dave Kuhlman <dkuhlman <at> rexx.com> writes:

> Bryan -
> 
> Thanks for this report.But, that's not good.  I suppose it means that whatever 
> the odf-odt
> writer is generating is not correct for OpenOfficeoowriter on both
> platforms (Linux, MS Windows).
> 
> I still have a machine on which I can boot MS Windows.  I'll take a
> look at it later today.
> 
> Later ...
> 
> I just tried it on Windows Vista with OpenOffice 2.4.  The page
> numbers do not show there.
> 
> I upgraded to OpenOffice 3.2.1.  Still no page numbers.
> 
> So, I'll take a look at what I'm generating and try to figure out what
> OpenOffice (on MS Windows) wants.
> 
> Perhaps I'll try creating a document on the MS Windows OpenOffice,
> then unpack it, and see how it compares with what we have on Linux.
> 
> I am assuming that the files created by OpenOffice should be platform
> independent, right?
> 
> More later.
> 
> - Dave

Dave,

I have created a post on the OpenOffice Writer forms as well to try and get some
more confirmations of the problem with certain setups.  I can't imagine how the
operating system interacts with the page number generation.

The thread is here:
http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=33783

I created a document in OpenOffice 3.2 on Win XP with a footer and the page
number fields and this is the relevant content in the styles.xml::

<style:footer>
  <text:p text:style-name="Footer">
  Page 
  <text:page-number text:select-page="current">1</text:page-number> 
  of 
  <text:page-count>1</text:page-count></text:p>
</style:footer>

Which is weird, because the actual current page and total page numbers are right
there in the XML (1 and 1 respectively).  I would expect some sort of
placeholder that is filled in by OpenOffice when the document is opened?