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Jeanweber.com might lead you to some good info. My understanding is that
master docs are a bad idea in any language but you might be the rare
exception.
Some guy was quite the expert with them (for Word) but then he dropped off
the list. Last I heard he had thrown off all computer technology and gone to
China to teach English.
Jim Jones
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...technical documents with OpenOffice Writer. The largest and most complex
documents are master documents. I created several of these in version 2.x,
some of which are hundreds of pages long. I upgraded to 3.x. Now these
master documents crash the program when I am opening them. Even master
documents created in the upgrade, 3.x, begin crashing the program after a
few days (these are brand new master documents, only a few pages long). This
is a disaster. Of course, since most of the actual text is contained in the
subdocs, which are unaffected, I have not lost a lot of work. But now I am
faced with the possibility of going back and re-building a lot of master
documents from the ground up. Worse, I can no longer trust a tool I have
relied on for years. ...
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Free Software Documentation Project Web Cast: Covers developing Table of
Contents, Context IDs, and Index, as well as Doc-To-Help
2009 tips, tricks, and best practices.
http://www.doctohelp.com/SuperPages/Webcasts/
Help & Manual 5: The complete help authoring tool for individual
authors and teams. Professional power, intuitive interface. Write
once, publish to 8 formats. Multi-user authoring and version control!
http://www.helpandmanual.com/
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