Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
Can you please (honestly) explain this distinction to me (or define)?
I feel like I am missing something here ...
I didn't follow this exact discussion, but if you think of a book that
consists of a master file and several childs, the document would be the whole
(the document settings would apply to the whole book), whereas the files are
the electronic entities.
This is the only situation that came to my mind, too. Here this
distinction makes sense, and, of course I agree.
In terms of GUI I find the master/child case handled not so well by LyX.
LyX wonderfully does its magic there behind the scenes, but we do not
have much GUI to control this (and give feedback to the user). But it
seems hard to me to make it better without adding complexity for
single-file documents (which is likely the more frequent usage case).
Example: The document settings do not apply to the whole book if I click
onto Document Settings while I am in a child document - something that
is not obvious.
/Konrad
