Using Edition Manager

The System 7 software extends the functionality of the usual ‘Cut and Copy’, enabling you to exchange data between documents, possibly in different applications, in a dynamic manner. A document of any application that supports Edition Manager™ can publish a certain part of its data, referred to as an edition, and all the documents subscribed to this edition will be updated dynamically whenever the edition in the publishing document changes.

‘My Letters’ fully supports this new feature. You can pubblish parts of your letters by selecting the text you want to be published and issuing the Create Publisher… command from the Edit menu, or you can subscribe to any existing edition of the ‘TEXT’ type by issuing the Subsribe To… command when the insertion point is active in your letter. Subscribed text will be inserted at the specified position.

The published and subscribed parts of your letter will be evidenced by borders around the text. These borders can be removed through the Hide Borders command. The subscribers will normally be updated when you save the letter that contains them, but you can decide otherwise through the Subscriber Options dialog. Finally, the Stop All Editions command permits you to stop updating all editions (both publishers and subscribers) in your letter.