Dotan Cohen wrote:
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?
Instead of focusing on parallels to Calc, let's think instead about this:
* You have a "family" of text documents, all related to the same
overall function.
* The documents are fully independent of each other for such things
as styles, page numbering, layout, and so on.
* When something causes you to want to edit or refer to one of these
documents, chances are high that your requirement extends also to
the other documents in the family.
* Currently, each of these documents has a different name, and you
open each in a separate window to achieve your objective.
* The proposal is to allow the documents to retain their
independence, but be contained in a single file that can be opened
with one action and makes the individual documents readily
accessible from each other to streamline the updating and/or
referencing activities you need to perform.
* When you have accomplished your task, you currently close each
document separately. With the new structure, a single action
closes all the documents.
Besides improving efficiency for the document owner, an advantage to
this structure is that the recovery information tracks together for all
the documents, making it less likely that they will get out of sync by
being restored to different points in your workflow.
Dotan, is this a reasonable statement of your intent here?
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