John Weiss wrote:
A master document including the parts is a good idea; maybe the individual
parts can still be rewritten some so they don't repeat to much.
The repetition was added, intentionally, after I was told that I had the wrong balance. ....
Change the individual docs to reduce the repetition, and you'll soon be hearing shrieks of pain from LyX users. This is, yet again, one of those compromises we made between "read online" and "read printed version".
Now that the flames are dying down a bit, maybe I can throw in my two cents & hear 'em clink.
I agree with John, repetition shouldn't be a problem. The traditional drawback
to repeating information in two different places is that it can get out of sync
when a writer makes changes in one place and doesn't know about (or forgets)
the other. The question is, would using input files (Insert menu -> Include file...)
cause more problems (extra "snippet" files lying around, the hassle of opening
them to see what's inside) than it solves?
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Larry Kollar k o l l a r @ a l l t e l . n e t
"The hardest part of all this is the part that requires thinking."
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