Index: trunk/doc/design/06_hierarchy.html =================================================================== --- trunk/doc/design/06_hierarchy.html (revision 4728) +++ trunk/doc/design/06_hierarchy.html (revision 4729) @@ -25,8 +25,8 @@ A multi page project is called hierarchical if at least one sheet references to another sheet. The system of references forms one or more loop-free trees, each with a single root sheet. The -list of root sheets is considered the "top level list of sheets" or in -short, the "top level" for the project. +list of root sheets is considered the "top level list of root sheets" or in +short, "root sheets" (or "top level sheets") for the project.

{des6:4} Hierarchy affects how networks are created and referenced. @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@

{des6:5} If a project contains multiple schematics pages without hierarchical cross-references, its topology is called a multi-page flat project. In -other words the top level consists of multiple sheets but no sheet has +other words the top level consists of multiple root sheets but no sheet has references to other sheets. It is possible to connect networks between the pages using global nets. @@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ sheets are often a map of the first level sheets and the connections between them, but there's no explicit map of the root sheet interconnects, only the implicit binding of global networks. +Root sheets are typically listed in the project file.

6.2. Netname scoping