[softwarelist] Unexpected behaviour/bug manually deleting page in OVPW 2.90 (29 March 06)

I have sent an example of this problem directly to David, as an
attachment in a separate e-mail, but I thought I should also post the
information to this mailing-list. Note, I am not looking for advice on
how better to organise my document, but am just attempting to describe
a possible bug.

I am using Ovation Pro for Windows to edit a small magazine. It
contains three chapters: chapter 1 being the front cover; chapter 2,
the inside pages and chapter 3, the back cover.

I needed to update the inside page of the front cover. There are two
local frames at the foot of this page, in addition to the default
master page frame. The text I was editing was in the master page
derived frame.

I have auto-page-insert and auto-page-delete options turned off in the
document preferences.

The updates caused chapter 1 page 2 to overflow, pushing some text
onto the "non-existent" next page (there was no visible indicator that
this overflow had occurred). I manually inserted another page (chapter
1 page 3) after the inside front cover (chapter 1 page 2), making
three pages in total for the chapter. The overflowing text was visible
on this new page.

I was then able to fiddle with the text so that it did fit on the
second page of the chapter, leaving the third page empty.

I next manually deleted the empty page 3. To my surprise, the two
local frames, at the bottom of page 2, also vanished.

I was able get around the problem by turning on auto-page-delete in
the document preferences, placing the cursor in page 3 and pressing
the "Backspace" key. This deleted page 3, but did not affect the two
local frames at the foot of page 2.
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Paul Witheridge - Marlow, UK

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