In a message dated 2010.06.09 18:21 -0500, Dotan Cohen wrote:
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Files are things that you can drag around in your file manager.
Documents are things that you can print.
Wouldn't it be nice to have an expenses.ods file that would have one
spreadsheet for your home expenses, another for your business
expenses, and a third for your hobby expenses? You can do that today,
in OOo Calc. They are called sheets.
Wouldn't it be nice to have an expenses.odt file that would have one
document that listed your home expenses, another that listed your
business expenses, and a third that listed your hobby expenses? Why
have three different ODT files for these related documents? How about
multiple-language resumes? Why must I keep an English resume in a
separate file from my Hebrew resume? Why can't they both be in the
same ODT file, just as multiple spreadsheets can be stored in a single
ODS file.
All fair points, but it's useful to recall that you can separate
sections of a document by page breaks, with each section having its own
language or topical focus. Never lose sight of the fact that the
spreadsheet analogy is imperfect, precisely because the sheets are /not/
separate documents. (Usually there are functional relationships between
sheets.)
Before, I thought the essential elements of your "separate sheets"
proposal related to the filing and editing environment:
- each "sheet" having its own editing state (cursors, etc - as for
separate documents), unaffected by editing of other sheets (unless you
had an enhanced content linkage between sheets - such as, say, language
translation, paragraph by paragraph);
- all "sheets" sharing a super-editing state, with sheet selection via
tabs (as in the spreadsheet case), with all sheets/documents loaded
together from the same file.
Were those not the essential elements?
John
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