> more on the help menu - imho it would be helpful if we could join some
> manuals together
Why would this be an advantage?
>- for example there is no reason to have embedded objects
> manual to have separated. i also wonder whats the reason for extended manual
to be
> separated.
Because they are not of interest for average users. They are designed to explain the things that are
mentioned in the UserGuide in detail including needed TeX code commands for specials formats. Every
manual is designed to be its own (ready to print) book, includinng a TOC, index, bibliography.
Concatenate them wouldn't be an advantage, you then only get a 350 page beast that is not
maintainable and also not usefule to find the infos you are searching for as you then have e.g. 2-3
different places describing something about graphics.
> next probably problematic draft would be to get rid of the table of contents
> file.
> i can't remember i have ever touched it, and because one can't click in
> hypertext way in its sections, i wonder how is this file to be used actually.
its
> generation takes a lot of time when make install is being done.
We can indeed get rid of them.
> last but not least i hope
> for complete 'LyX Book' to be released synchronously with 1.6, which will
> contain
> all manuals put together, with working pdf bookmarks, so the the contents will
> be accessible in a more feasible way.
See above. Nevertheless the UserGuide is a kind of master document, it refers to the other
documents. When you want to go deeper into a topic, open the referred manual - that are only about 3
clicks.
regars Uwe
