On 11/12/2012 08:41 AM, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
Has there been any discussion on LyX's handling of having a child and
more than one of its parents open at the same time since this email?
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.devel/123979
Not as far as I know. It's a complex issue.
Should I put a "Note that a child and two masters should not be open
at the same time" in the Embedded Objects manual?
It wouldn't be a bad idea to include some kind of warning, and possibly
a more complete explanation of what the situation is.
Are there definitions for "master" and "parent"?
A Buffer's parent is the Buffer that immediately includes it. At least,
that's the idea, though in fact a Buffer can be included more than once
and in that case I think it's the first Buffer that includes it, though
I'm not positive. The master is the top of this chain: the root of the
tree, in the intended case, though in some cases, again, it isn't a
tree, but a more complicated sort of directed graph. But it has to have
some kind of root, or else we will have problems.
Richard
