Hello,
I know that working with modular documents is described in the User's
Guide, and it has come up several times on the mailing list, but I think
I am still missing something...
The workflow which is described in the User's Guide is OK when you start
with the "modules" (for example in DocBook, create new sections as
standalone documents) and then put them together in a larger document.
My normal usage is kind of the other way round: I start writing a larger
document, and as soon as I see that a chapter or section gets too large,
I want to put it into an external document. I did not find a way to do
this easily within XXE.
What I'd like to do is something like this:
1. Mark a section of the master document
2. Copy it
3. Paste it into a new document
4. Save this document
5. Copy this document as a reference back into the master document
My problem is that I don't find an easy way to do step 3: I tried this
by creating (in the DocBook example) a new section-document, but then I
have no way of replacing the content of the new (empty) document with
the copied section. The only way I found to achieve what I wanted was to
copy the *content* of the section into the new section document, which
can be very cumbersome if there is a lot of stuff inside the section.
Am I missing something or is this just not possible the way I imagine?
Thanks for any help
Bernd
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"...each patient is expendable"
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