[Scribus] Page numbering - known bug or feature?

[Craig Bradney]

On Friday 19 October 2007 22:07:59 Louis Desjardins wrote:
> Dr. Werner Popken a ?crit :
> > ver. 1.3.3.9:
> >
> > Using page numbers on masterpages, I want them to switch from left to
> > right on left resp. right pages, so that the number on the left page
> > rifht aligns to the text frame and the page number on the right page
> > left aligns accordingly, something like that:
> >
> >   t                          t  |  t                          t
> >   t                          t  |  t                          t
> >   t                          t  |  t                          t
> >   tttttttttttttttttttttttttttt  |  tttttttttttttttttttttttttttt
> >  x                              |                               y
> >
> > To be ready for 3-digit page numbers, I defined textboxes with ### on
> > my left/right-master pages, which seems to be reduced to only 2 or 1
> > digits sometimes when applied, but I'm fighting my way through ;-)
> >
> > Also, defining as ### and having only 2 digits, the left page number
> > ist not right aligned, but instead a blank is added and this blank is
> > right aligned. That's not really acceptable. Happily, I found
> > workarounds in my case, but maybe this should be reported as a bug, or
> > is it known and taken care for already?
>
> The wrong alignment of the page number is a bug. We should be using only
> one page number char. for any page number. There are quite a few bug
> reports on page number issues in the bug tracker. Don't be shy to add
> your voice there, if nobody mentioned this specific issue already.