Jason White wrote:
Rohan McLeod<rhn@jeack.com.au> wrote:
Apparently there is some kind of meta-document called a 'master-file'; ( the same nomenclature seems to exist in LibreOffice and OpenOffice) which seems to be just a file of links to the component documents; so far so good. Word processors have had this feature for a long time. I remember it in WordPerfect 5.1. Problem is the result thus far, (after extensive consultation with the relevant help-files and googling), is litttle better than concatenating the individual documents. -' chapters' don't start on odd pages or even at top of page and 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 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. - '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 thanks for your interest Jaso; regards Rohan McLeod