On 10 June 2010 03:46, John Kaufmann <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.) >
Yes, but my three resumes are three different documents. They should each start their page numbering from 1, for instance. And I should be able to print them by simply clicking print, without having to check the start and stop page for each. > 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? > Those would be very desirable features, yes. Think of it this way, why does Calc need separate sheets? What does this allow the user to do? Wouldn't you like to do that in Writer as well? -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
