On Friday 10 July 2015 11:28:53 Liviu Andronic wrote: > Absolutely, yet our naming is so terse so as to prove confusing. Maybe > we need a tooltip there, or a status message appearing when hovering > the item, or something else. Otherwise people simply won't really know > what that item is supposed to do, or worse assume that LyX is unable > to do this at all (when it does!). I know RTFM would be one way to > approach this, but maybe there is something we can do to ease > confusion... Say, and yet another shot in the dark: "Include Child > Document (.tex, .lyx, etc.)"
FWIW I agree with you. :-) "Child Document" and "External Material" differ only on the implementation. Note also that even in terms of documentation in section 7 (External Document Parts) of the "LyX's detailed Figure, Table, Floats, Notes, Boxes and External Material manual" it says: "With the menu Insert->File you can insert external material into your document. This can be: LyX Document - Another LyX document; its content is directly inserted to your document. Plain Text - A text document; each line is inserted in your document as a separate paragraph. Plain Text, Join Lines - A text document; text lines are inserted in your document continuously but an empty text line creates a new paragraph. External Material - Files in various formats. Child Document - LyX or LaTeX-documents." This is funny because basically it says that External Material is a particular case of external material. :-) And just like what you said refers child document just for .lyx or .tex files, exactly what you have proposed. :-) Date is a striking example since there is no file to be inserted. :-) I agree with the non-discoverability of this. I have to search for it if I do not use this feature for some time. It would be probably easier if the options were packaged together in terms of functionality and not of implementation. For example for listings I can imagine to use an external program (like src-highlite from gnu) that takes care of the program representation and exports to several formats instead of just using listings. If we were to add this option as an external material then similar functionality would shown apart depending just on the implementation used. > Cheers, > Liviu -- José Abílio
