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Subject:RE: Need help w/master docs in OpenOffice 3.x From:"Sarah Stegall" <sstegall -at- bivio -dot- net> To:<techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:22:31 -0700
If anyone knows a better way to keep track of multiple modules, some of
which can be standalone documents and some of which are chapters in
manuals, and can do this WITHOUT requiring me to learn XML, I'm open to
suggestions.
Sarah
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Subject: RE: Need help w/master docs in OpenOffice 3.x
Jeanweber.com might lead you to some good info. My understanding is that
master docs are a bad idea in any language but you might be the rare
exception.
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