No, I don't have a list of the remaining master docs problems. I
keep intending to check on these, but not finding the time. The
main bug that I know about was mentioned in my note appended below.
Some of the problems are not bugs; they are consequences of the
way master docs work, but they do limit what you can do or
require you to do specific things as workarounds. The problems in
that category that I am aware of are included in the chapter on
Master Docs in the Writer Guide, mainly in the section on Problem
Solving at the end of the chapter.
I've also helped several people whose problems with master docs
stemmed from misunderstanding one or more of the obscure
interactions between master docs and subdocs. I keep intending to
collect all those odd bits of knowledge and publish them. Maybe
next year...
If anyone has encountered specific problems with master docs, I
would like to hear about them so I can help determine if they are
actually bugs or in one of the categories that we can find ways
around.
--Jean
Gary Schnabl wrote:
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
