On 08/29/2016 04:48 PM, racoon wrote:
On 29.08.2016 15:28, Michael Berger wrote:
Are you sure to have understood the concept of master-child?
Michael
On 08/29/2016 12:22 PM, racoon wrote:
Hi,
I almost never View child documents. Most of the time they don't
compile properly on their own anyway. So I would like to remove the
View button from my interface. Unfortunately, the View master document
button is grayed out if there are no child documents in a "master". Is
that on purpose? Why not enable it anyway? So one normally presses one
and the same button and only for the extraordinary circumstance of
viewing a child document has to press another button.
Maybe, you had in mind what is written in the User Guide:
"[The View Master Document] menu item is only visible if your document
is included to another document, which is then its “master” (see
section Child Documents in the Embedded Objects manual for more
information on this topic)." (A.6.8)
This seems just plain wrong. The menu item (and the toolbar button) is
visible in any master document as well.
Daniel
No Daniel,
the 'Select default master document' is open as you might want to use it
as a child in another document, the then master. So you should not be to
much concerned about this.
When you use/create/include a child document using > Insert > File >
Child Document you will be presented the Child Documents option in the
Documents Setting dialogue. And to me this is correct behavior.
If you do use child documents then the settings and preamble are stored
in the master will rule (although there are some exceptions, e.g.
modules that need to be set in a child's preamble).
That too is proper behavior in my opinion because otherwise you would
have to write preambles and settings for each single child document. And
you would not use the master-child concept for small documents - would you?
Now, as a consequence you most probably get an error when trying to
compile a child document because it needs the settings of the master.
You have to save the child first and then compile the master.
That is why I think your statement 'Most of the time they don't compile
properly on their own anyway' is inappropriate.
Hope that I did not misunderstand you but this is what I have here.
Cheers,
Michael
