Master Page Behavior When Adding or Deleting an Odd Number of Pages in Affinity Publisher

[clara-c]

I'm designing a book with facing pages and a master page spread with wider margins at the gutter than the outer edges. I may also add running headers that will be different on left and right pages. If I add an odd number of pages, I would expect the layout of the pages following that new one to be automatically adjusted to maintain the wider margins in the gutter, etc. (That is the default in Adobe InDesign and one of the major benefits of using master pages.) However, in Affinity Publisher, this doesn't happen by default. Is there some way to enable this, or is it a feature not yet implemented?

I've searched the forums and see that other folks have run into this issue. I'm not looking for the suggestion that I just add or remove pages in pairs. I need help figuring out how to make Publisher master pages behave gracefully when an odd number of pages is added or deleted.

Thanks.

P. S. Before posting this I decided to test something. I made a new master spread with different margins and applied it to a spread set up with the old master. The margins of the content didn't change, so it appears that the master only serves as a guide for setting up the content, and that the spread layout isn't actually governed by the master page settings. Is that true, or do I just need to turn layout adjustment on? (There's a checkbox in InDesign for whether to allow layout adjustment when you change the margins.)

[Old Bruce]

I am not seeing this on Mac OS 10.14.6 with Publisher 1.8.4

All I can think of is you have some how set the margins for your Master Pages and your (actual) Pages to different values. This is in the Spread Setup, it will be applied to those pages (either Master or actual) you have selected, those with the blue outline in the Pages Panel.

Reapplying the Master Pages will change the margins to what ever the Master Page has.