[softwarelist] Re: OPro Manual

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      David Pilling <flist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>>  My present computer has ample RAM. I therefore created the whole
>>manual as a single multi-chapter document (approx. 14Mb) and find that
>>using the index, then going to the page in the manual is almost as
>>fast as having a HTML file. Of course, it takes time to create this
>>single document. And of course you then use a copy.
> 
> For Windows there is a PDF of the complete manual which is useful for
> searching.
> 
> http://www.davidpilling.info/cd/DavidPilling/Documentation/Pdf/manual.pdf
> 

Indeed, but no experimenting is possible.

> 
>>  There are two ways to create a single document. The easy way is by
>>copying chapters into a single document, the hard way is by
>>Alt-dragging/drop first the text and then all pictures from the
>>separate chapters to the single document. I advise the latter
>>especially if you want to do testing on the (copy of the) manual.
> 
> I've never been one for doing things the easy way, but what is the
> advantage of the hard way in this case?

When you copy a chapter, it is copied as a separate window on top of 
the window frame. If you do this with a draft document(s), you get 
problems when resizing the master frame as the copied chapter does not 
follow the changed size. (Discovered this while experimenting for a 
new layout of the manual as a single document.)

Greetings

JohnvV
-- 
Jhr JMAH van Vredenburch

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