Rob,
When you make a rung comment or page title, you have to select either "Attach to File/Rung", or "Attach to Output Address" (the default setting). Either selection has pitfalls. If you select "File/Rung" for some rungs (but not all), then delete or add a rung, the results can be confusing and unpredictable. If you select "File/Rung" for all rungs, then subsequently add or delete rungs, your comments and titles on a particular rung will move up or down the same number of rungs that you added or deleted BEFORE the particular rung.
If you go online to a file that has a significantly different number of rungs than your saved file, then the resulting movement of the comments and page titles can make you think they have "disappeared". They may still be in the laddder --somewhere! To recover the original layout, you may try "Tools, Database, Adjust Rung Offset", if you can figure out by how many rungs your comments have moved. What if you change the number or name of a file? Major no-no! Then all the comments that were tied to that file do not show up on a ladder anywhere, even though they still may be in the database. To see what is still in there, go to the menu tree "Database, then "Rung Comments/Page Title".
On the other hand if you select "Output Address" to tie the comments and page tittles, then your comments will always show up with that specific output--unless you delete the output! If you move the output to another rung, or add or delete a rung, then your comments stay with the original rung. What if the output shows up more than one place? Major confusion! Suddenly you have the same comment showing up many times.
I think most of us use the "File/Rung" setting and then learn to live with and adjust to the consquences.
When you make a rung comment or page title, you have to select either "Attach to File/Rung", or "Attach to Output Address" (the default setting). Either selection has pitfalls. If you select "File/Rung" for some rungs (but not all), then delete or add a rung, the results can be confusing and unpredictable. If you select "File/Rung" for all rungs, then subsequently add or delete rungs, your comments and titles on a particular rung will move up or down the same number of rungs that you added or deleted BEFORE the particular rung.
If you go online to a file that has a significantly different number of rungs than your saved file, then the resulting movement of the comments and page titles can make you think they have "disappeared". They may still be in the laddder --somewhere! To recover the original layout, you may try "Tools, Database, Adjust Rung Offset", if you can figure out by how many rungs your comments have moved. What if you change the number or name of a file? Major no-no! Then all the comments that were tied to that file do not show up on a ladder anywhere, even though they still may be in the database. To see what is still in there, go to the menu tree "Database, then "Rung Comments/Page Title".
On the other hand if you select "Output Address" to tie the comments and page tittles, then your comments will always show up with that specific output--unless you delete the output! If you move the output to another rung, or add or delete a rung, then your comments stay with the original rung. What if the output shows up more than one place? Major confusion! Suddenly you have the same comment showing up many times.
I think most of us use the "File/Rung" setting and then learn to live with and adjust to the consquences.
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