16.4 Chaining Clones
Duplicating (4.4 Copying, Cutting, Pasting, and Duplicating) or copying and pasting a clone gives you another clone of the same original. (You can copy and then paste a clone into a different document but only together with its original; if you try to paste a clone alone, it will end up being orphaned and invisible.) Duplicating an existing clone is often convenient, as this duplicate will also get the first clone’s own transform and style, if it had any. Of course, you can also get another clone simply by cloning the original again.
Moreover, nothing prevents you from cloning a clone object itself. The resulting object—a clone of a clone—will still display the content of its ultimate original, but its link to it is no longer ...
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