Philippe Nobili wrote: > Hussein Shafie wrote: >> We consider that this operation is seldom needed, otherwise we would >> have implemented a specific command to perform it. >> > > Just for your information, we perform this operation very frequently. >
We'll eventually implement a command performing this operation. > It's a common situation in our case not to know in advance which parts > (sections/chapters/...) of a document will eventually be shared. > > Another similar thing we often do (we use the same procedure) is turning > chapters into sections and conversely, appendix into chapters, etc.... > The rationale is the same (== not knowing in advance how documents parts > will be organized and shared among documents). Please select the "Document structure" item in the View menu and then use the Promote and Demote commands in order to perform these tasks (chapter to section and the other way round, but not chapter to appendix). See http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/docbook/docbook_menu.html > > For all these cases, the copy and paste of children works fine, but this > is not always easy to guess...; specific commands might be useful. >
