On 12/04/12 02:36, Martin Groenescheij wrote: > > On 4/12/2012 5:56 PM, Gary Aitken wrote: >> On 12/03/12 23:46, Martin Groenescheij wrote: >>> On 4/12/2012 5:36 PM, Gary Aitken wrote: >>>> On 12/03/12 18:39, James Plante wrote: >>>> >>>>> One of the reasons I *don't* use master docs is because >>>>> of the extra work needed to cross-reference various parts of a report, >>>>> e.g., >>>>> on page 24, see cost analysis in Appendix C, page 98. (And page 98 keeps >>>>> incrementing as your document grows; it finally ends up being on page >>>>> 210-- >>>>> and your cross-reference reflects that.) >>>> It has been over a decade since I've written anything long like that; but >>>> 15 >>>> or so years ago good word-processing software handled this problem >>>> properly. >>>> Indices automatically kept up to date, as did cross-chapter / file >>>> references. >>>> If aoo doesn't do that, it should be very high on the list of things to >>>> fix / >>>> add in the next rev. >>>> >>>> In that regard, I don't know if the iso standard which describes odt files >>>> deals with this, (and I can't look at it because one has to pay ISO to get >>>> a copy) but I would hope that it does, as it's an obvious well-known issue. >>>> If it doesn't, it's something that should be addressed via a proposal to >>>> iso >>>> with a sample implementation in the next rev of aoo. >>> Is what you ask is a standard for an unstructured input? >>> OpenOffice can deal with large files if you understand the concept of >>> Styles. >> I'm not familiar enough with styles to answer that for certain, but what I'm >> talking about has nothing to do with the size of the file. I'm talking about >> a collection of files which together comprise the total document, as if >> concatenated end-to-end. e.g. toc.odt, contents.odt, chapter1.odt,... >> index.odt. >> book.odt says it's made up of those files in that order. >> > That's exactly what OpenOffice can do when you take the effort to learn / > understand how to work with Styles > The Help file says this about Cross-references: > > The advantage of entering a cross-reference as a field is that you do */not > have to adjust the references manually/* every time you change the document. > Just update the fields with F9 and the references in the document are updated > too.
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