Do you have a listing of any extant master docs problems? I'm now in the
process of incorporating some two dozen subdocs into a master doc for
one of the firms where I technical edit (which previously sent large
single MS Word text docs with external MS Word table and Excel figure
files to their freelance layout editor). Styles were not use at all by
any of their authors, and virtually every effect was created using
manual overrides.
So, I'm preparing templates for their future use with OOo (but
converting them to Word also for those writers who don't or won't do
OOo). This firm is finally starting to lay the law down to those writers
who just cannot seem to do their work correctly or efficiently.
Anyway, if you still have a list of problems with master docs, I could
ascertain if I experience any of them myself. Also, I'm writing style
and template guides for this firm using much of what's available at
OOoAuthors. Eventually, I might get around to writing an omnibus
OOoAuthors tutorial using master docs...
Later,
Gary
Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
TJ Frazier wrote (in another thread),
> * Master documents: is anybody else (everybody else?) as tired
> as I am of all the little glitches with master docs? A couple
> were mentioned in the Template How-To. There are others.
I have quite a list of "glitches" with master docs, and have filed
several issues. Some of the older problems have been fixed, but many
have not. The biggest problem for me is the random errors in
cross-referencing within a single file when it is a subdoc in a master
doc, but not when it is a standalone file. This has been such a big
problem that I have given up attempting to compile the Writer Guide
using a master doc; instead, I pull all the chapters into one big
file. That is a bit time-consuming, but no more than trying to find
and fix all the wrong x-refs, and I'm more confident that the final
result will be okay.
--Jean
