Reply To: Book features vs single document discuss

The book feature is very much in need of an overhaul. Not being able to set the numbering of footnotes to continue from doc to doc in the book is inefficient and leads to errors. Synching styles takes a lot care if one uses many styles. I could go on at length. Nevertheless, I use the book feature a fair bit for the following reasons. [1] Most of front matter and back matter of my publications is boilerplate. It’s easier to plug the separate documents set up for each into a book than to copy and paste to a single document. [2] It’s easier to keep material from each author in a collection in a separate doc in a book, especially as each chapter will have unique stylistic requirements and I will have a doc identified by chapter and author for sending proofs. It’s also easier when the order of the chapters in the book is changed about. [3] ID does not retain the scope of search-and-replace operations very well and it’s safer to isolate global searches to a particular doc.