Re: [libreoffice-users] Master Document

I agree, Brian, that one generally need need to worry about style 
precision in subdocuments, since the master document controls the final 
output. That's the beauty of the master document process. It's almost 
LyX-like in its execution (what you see is what you /mean/).

But, I sense that the way Dale is creating his "faux headers" in his 
subdocuments, he needs an accurate wysiwyg display on each page of each 
subdocument, which would, of course, require that each subdocument have 
styles that exactly match those of the master document so that, while 
he's editing, he can have total comfort that the final output will be as 
he's created it.

So, instead of looking at this as a possible bug (which it isn't), 
perhaps pursue a feature request to have a Field that would pick up the 
first and last words of each page. Then he could put just the field in a 
true header and have the perfect solution.

Virgil


On 3/25/2014 2:31 AM, Brian Barker wrote:
> At 23:26 24/03/2014 -0500, Dale Erwin wrote:
> > ... the instructions for creating a master document.  First you 
> > create a template which has all the styles defined in it.  Then the 
> > master document and all subdocuments are created from this template.  
> > The only problem is that if changes to any style becomes necessary, 
> > I've not found any way to make the changes in one place and have them 
> > take effect in all files which were already created before the 
> > changes were made.
>
> I don't think you generally need to do this.  It's surely not 
> important to be able to see any such changes in the subdocuments: what 
> matters is only how the final (master) document appears.  If your 
> structure is right and you change the styles in the master document, 
> you should have all that you need.
>
> > Up to now, I've had to make such changes in the template as well as 
> > in each file which has already been created from the template.
>
> Unless you are going to create further subdocuments (and possibly not 
> even then), there is no point in changing the template, I think.  But 
> if you do, you get a chance to update documents created from the 
> template to use any modified styles when you next open those 
> documents, so you should not need to make changes "as well as in each 
> file" - only perhaps to open those files, accept the offer, and 
> re-save them.
>
> I trust this helps.
>
> Brian Barker


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