On 01/07/2014 09:58 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 3:45 AM, Michael Torrie <torr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I tend to add my own [styles] >> for quotes, captions, etc. After composing the document, >> then you modify the styles to set the spacings, fonts, indentations, >> border lines, etc. The workflow is very similar to using LyX, or even a >> plain markup language for that matter. > > That's all very well when you put everything into a single file, but > how do you manage those styles across a multi-file book? Mum's project > was partially rescued by the discovery that you can import styles from > another document, but that's still unworkable for repeated edits.
Sorry should have been clearer on this. I do use multiple documents with LO with a master document. The table of contents can even be generated across documents. I believe my TOC is in my master document, along with the front matter. As for styles, basically you create a master template style that you use as a basis for each of your files (master document as well as the subdocuments). I make all my changes to the master template style and then when I open the various documents LO will update the templates. They aren't linked templates per se; they are copied. But the mechanism works okay, if a bit clunky. > >> The weakest part of LibreOffice is embedding images. > > And that's why this particular book is being divided up: it's full of > images. Putting the whole thing into a single file makes that file way > way too big to work with (at least on the computer Mum's using - it's > X times larger than her installed RAM, so Writer is constantly > hammering the page file), and there's no convenient way to read in > only part of the file. Hence my recommendation of a markup system like > LaTeX that simply *references* images, and which deliberately isn't > WYSIWYG; plus, having the concept of content, structure, and style all > separate means it's not difficult to build just one file - maybe not > even a whole chapter - while still being confident that all pages > reference the same styles. LO does reference images if you would like. But I find embedding the whole works is just more self-contained. And with multiple file documents the chances of losing data or messing with pagination are contained to individual sections. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
