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diff --git a/doc/user/typ_orga b/doc/user/typ_orga index 1e9aa36..ce49851 100644 --- a/doc/user/typ_orga +++ b/doc/user/typ_orga @@ -91,4 +91,18 @@ file. You might also find it useful to construct your book @I { top-down }, as computer scientists call it, laying out all the chapters and sections as empty skeletons and filling their contents in later. +@PP +When some part of your document has to be repeated, one way to avoid +entering it twice is to place that part in a separate file and use +@Code "@Include" in two places to include it twice. This works, but +there are two caveats. First, it may be better to use a definition +(Section {@NumberOf definitions}), since that gives you an object +with a name, which you can use with confidence anywhere at all. +Second, Lout treats @Code "@Include" in a peculiar way when it +appears in the setup part of a document (in definitions, databases, +and the @Code "@Use" clauses that appear within setup files): it +reads the file as usual the first time, and silently skips it the +other times. This is done to simplify the handling of files of +definitions that depend on other files of definitions, as described +in the Expert's Guide @Cite { $kingston1995lout.expert }. @End @Section |