Rohan McLeod <rhn@jeack.com.au> wrote:
Jason White wrote:
Have you placed new page commands in appropriate places? If the worst comes to the worst , I would consider this ; which seems to amount to manually editing the master-file; but since the feature is advertised as ' applicable to writing a book'; I am hoping to find a way for it to happen automatically.
I don't think it's designed to insert page breaks (or to force new chapters to start on recto pages) automatically, unless you have a style or command set to that effect somewhere in the document.
I doubt that simply combining the files will result in extra page breaks; you have to add those if you want them in all systems that I've used. Yes;I have called 'combining' files 'concatenating' files eg copy and paste; the whole reason I am looking at 'master-files' is to automate this. It is hard to see what purpose master-files serve, if they merely emulate cut and paste.
They let you maintain individual chapters as separate files - I think that's all they're supposed to do. It's like a #include in C.
- 'chapter' headers (originally the document headers) get completely lost ! Perhaps you could try defining them in the master document, i.e.: Preliminary matter -> header definitions -> chapter inclusions. ..again If the worst comes to the worst .....etc. see above
I think you're demanding of this feature more than it's designed to do.