On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 22:19:49 +0800
James Elliott wrote:

> Hi Naomi
> 
> Thanks for your prompt and informative reply.  You wrote: "Make
> sense?" - Yes, I think so.  You have certainly pointed me in the right
> direction.
> 
> I had quite a different idea of what a Master Document might be, so
> thanks for your help.  Actually, I am writing a novel and thinking
> that there might be a role to play for Master Documents in that
> regard, either to organise the chapters (each of which is a separate
> document) or to synchronise several copies (backups).
> 
> Once again - many thanks,
> 

<snip>

For a novel author good understanding of how styles works could be
invaluable as well. Especially if you are looking at following seperate
characters concurrently. Each "scene" can use a 'scene style heading'
and moving the heading up and down the list of scenes in the
navigator will allow the whole scene to be repositioned within the
document without the use of cut and paste. Promotion and demotion will
allow you to make the unexpectedly long scene into a chapter in its
own right, or to reduce the short chapter to just a scene.

As i am not an author of tomes much larger than these emails, perhaps
other authors on the list could point out better uses of styles for
novel writing.

-- 
Michael
 Those that can, do; those that can't, teach.

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