Maarten Rutgers wrote: > My ulitimate confusion (and I know many of my co-workers will have the same > problem) is that when a branch is advertised with a checkmark (ON) or an X > (OFF) in ANY document, the expectation will be there that it will display > accordingly in the compiled output.
The source of this (and related) confusion is that while editing a file, we do not know if you will compile it as master or as child. This is difficult to get right for all purposes. There will always be a gap between "what you see" and "what you get" (or "mean", for that matter). However, ... > May I suggest displaying information as follows: > > Have the inline display of branch information in a CHILD document to do > somehting like this: (v is supposed to be a checkmark, indicating the > branch is ON, x indicates the branch is OFF) > > 1. Branch (x master only) A: > 2. Branch (v child only) B: > 3. Branch (x master,v child) C: this looks like a good idea. > Some suggestions on right clicking > - Right click on item 1 and you are given the choice to ADD the branch to > the child document, and to turn it on or off. - Right click on item 2 and > you are given the choice to turn branch B on or off. - Right click on item > 3 and you are given the choices to change the state of the master C branch > or the child C branch. and this as well. IÄd suggest you file two separate enhancement requests for those. > As we transiton to LyX 2.0, I will make use of the includeonly feature. But > in the last year most of my co-workers (more of a MS word crowd with no TeX > experience) have gotten in the habit of frequently compiling their child > documents to read their final output as part of the editing process. I > suppose for that I can define all children to have all the branches turne > ON so at least everything can be read immediately during editing. For > distributing individual chapters, we can start using includeonly. Yes, you can do this (using the approach #1 I suggested on trac). Jürgen > Thanks.
