On 3/25/2014 1:55 PM, Virgil Arrington wrote:
I imagine that there are, indeed, legitimate reasons why someone would
want to control a master document through the sub-documents, but I
would strongly suggest that before going that route, the user
completely learns how to use the master documents the way they were
designed. In the process, they just might find what they're looking
for. I can't tell you the number of times I have found myself using
LyX or Atlantis, or some other program because I believed "it couldn't
be done with LO." Then after a little self-education, I find that it,
indeed, *can* be done with LO, and I just wasted a lot of time using
another program.
My larger point, to which I still hold, is that far too many people do
not take full advantage of their computers. Now, you might say this is
a matter of personal preference, and so it is. But, in my profession
(law), if a client is paying his lawyer $200.00/hour to write a legal
brief, he'll save money if the lawyer learns how to fully use
templates and styles. I've watched lawyers spend hours (at $200 a
crack) typing a table of authorities, when MS Word or WordPerfect can
automatically generate one in minutes. So, in *some* instances, our
personal preferences *can* affect other people.
And, my second point was that people continue to use less effective
methods because office suites continue to make them available in their
attempts to be "one size fits all" programs. While I agree it is
necessary for them to remain marketable, I think it is unfortunate.
I admit that I, too, grew up using a typewriter and was an IBM mainframe
programmer, and as such could not really see any need to use styles.
Then I got involved in constructing documents by collaborating with
co-authors located in various locations. This gave rise to the use of
master documents and showed me the error of my ways. I also admit that
even though I use page styles in my master document creation, I've never
been able to understand how to use the paragraph and character styles
and suspect that this might be limiting my formatting ability in LO. I
tried to define a paragraph style but had no luck. How would you define
a paragraph style to handle a dictionary entry such as this:
*canuscere*/v.t./ to know, to be familiar with.
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