Writer Guide

To set up portrait headers and footers on landscape pages:
1) Calculate the required margins so the text area of the landscape
page is the same size as the text area on the portrait pages,
taking into account the space for headers and footers on the
portrait pages. For example, consider a book which uses the
margins shown in the following table. The landscape right and left
margins are 1 cm larger than the portrait top and bottom
margins, respectively. This difference accounts for the extra space
used by the portrait header and footer (0.5 cm for the height of
the header or footer and a 0.5 cm gap between the header or
footer and the main text).
Portrait page (right page) Landscape page (right page)
Top margin 1.5 cm Right margin 2.5 cm
Bottom margin 1.5 cm Left margin 2.5 cm
Left (inner) margin 2.8 cm Top margin 2.8 cm
Right (outer) margin 1.8 cm Bottom margin 1.8 cm
2) Create the Landscape page style.
3) Measure the distance from the upper and left edges of the page to
the upper left-hand corner of the space where you want the footer
to appear. Measure the width and length of the space the footer
will occupy (to match footers on portrait pages).
Figure 131: Measuring the location and size of the footer frame
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