On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Richard Heck <rgh...@lyx.org> wrote: > 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.
OK, I will put a warning in but I'll hold off on the explanation because I don't understand what's going on. > > >> 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. Thanks, this helps. Scott
