At 16:25 03/05/2015 -0500, Dale Erwin wrote:
On 5/3/2015 3:24 AM, Rory O'Farrell wrote:
Another way to do this might be to make a Master Document, and
enter therein the names of all the text files in sequence (perhaps
from a captured directory listing?). The output document resulting
from the expanded Master Document might then be edited in the usual
way. There are problems: the individual documents might lose their
formatting, and one would need to get one's head around the
complexities of Master Documents and their structure. For a one-off
task the hundred documents could have been inserted by hand using
/File /Insert and an hour's work.
My experience with master documents has been that the expanded
master document cannot be edited directly, only the individual
component files may be edited.
Maybe so, but it would be a trivial matter to copy all of the master
document text into a new ordinary document. The material appears as
sections, but it again easy to remove these (to merge the material,
that is, not to delete it) either in the master document or later in
the ordinary one.
Brian Barker
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