Re: [patch] master file information

2008-04-28 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > The master has to be set explicitly (like the old ParentInset > mechanism we used to have?), right? Yes. > Then it is OK. However, I would be > against a mechanism to remember multiple parents. Much too complicated > for little gain. This needed further discussion

Re: [patch] master file information

2008-04-28 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Jürgen Spitzmüller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It fixes several drawbacks of our current unidirectional child document > handling. Since the document has now always access to the master buffer > (previously, this was only the case if the child was opened from the master), > it can retrieve in

Re: Tree-view of a documents files? (Was: [patch] master file information)

2008-04-27 Thread rgheck
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 26 Apr 2008, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Here is an attempt to provide a child document with some knowledge about its master. Just a thought I had while reading Juergen's post:... do we have a feature that can show a representation of the files that are used to

Tree-view of a documents files? (Was: [patch] master file information)

2008-04-27 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Sat, 26 Apr 2008, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Here is an attempt to provide a child document with some knowledge about its master. Just a thought I had while reading Juergen's post:... do we have a feature that can show a representation of the files that are used to produce a document? The

Re: [patch] master file information

2008-04-27 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > Well, then we should add a \child_doc tag to indicate the childness of > the document. Then, if LyX doesn't find a  master in the session info, > it will ask you to browse for one. So yes, it won't be as straight > forward as putting the parent filename in the format, and

Re: [patch] master file information

2008-04-27 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: When closing a child document, we can write that this document was a child of this other document. We would use a vector of strings so that multiple parent documents can be registered. Then when opening again this child document directly (as

Re: [patch] master file information

2008-04-26 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > When closing a child document, we can write that this document was a > child of this other document. We would use a vector of strings so that > multiple parent documents can be registered. > Then when opening again this child document directly (as opposed with > 'together

Re: [patch] master file information

2008-04-26 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: I really often have "shared" child document (actually almost all my documents are like this); so as long as I am not forced to use this feature, I am fine with it. No, you're not forced to use it. But thinking more about it, I feel

Re: [patch] master file information

2008-04-26 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > I really often have "shared" child document (actually almost all my > documents are like this); so as long as I am not forced to use this > feature, I am fine with it. No, you're not forced to use it. Jürgen

Re: [patch] master file information

2008-04-26 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Here is an attempt to provide a child document with some knowledge about its master. It fixes several drawbacks of our current unidirectional child document handling. Since the document has now always access to the master buffer (previously, this was only the case if

Re: [patch] master file information

2008-04-26 Thread rgheck
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: rgheck wrote: In general, this would be very nice. You really have to hack things at present to make the bibliography, for example, work. What's not clear to me is how this works with, say, math macros present in the master. Does the master automatically get opened w

Re: [patch] master file information

2008-04-26 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
rgheck wrote: > In general, this would be very nice. You really have to hack things at > present to make the bibliography, for example, work. What's not clear to > me is how this works with, say, math macros present in the master. Does > the master automatically get opened when the child does? If n

Re: [patch] master file information

2008-04-26 Thread rgheck
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Here is an attempt to provide a child document with some knowledge about its master. It fixes several drawbacks of our current unidirectional child document handling. Since the document has now always access to the master buffer (previously, this was only the case if

[patch] master file information

2008-04-26 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Here is an attempt to provide a child document with some knowledge about its master. It fixes several drawbacks of our current unidirectional child document handling. Since the document has now always access to the master buffer (previously, this was only the case if the child was opened from t