On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 07:02:24PM +0200, Tommaso Cucinotta wrote:
> Hi all,

Hi Tommaso, good to hear from you!

> quite some time I don't write to this list, but in an attempt to find back 
> some motivational push towards contributing again to the project, I recently 
> proposed to provide a 15-min demo about LyX at the upcoming LinuxDay, on Oct 
> 22nd in Pisa (Italy), and I've just been notified that this might really 
> happen :-)! Thought it would be good to notify LyX folks, but also to write 
> to hear a quick re-cap of what happened in the last couple of years,

I'm guessing you are familiar with the following links, but if by chance
you are not, take a look at:

http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX21
http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX22

> and also gather some opinions about what's best to show about the tool, in a 
> 15-mins time window, in an event like this

Do you have any idea what the crowd will be like? Will they want to
learn how to use LyX or is it more about LyX's development? Do you
expect most of them to be researchers (e.g. might find LyX useful for
writing academic articles)? Since there will probably be a mix, it would
be cool to have a slide with weird uses of LyX, e.g. writing musing
(with LilyPond). I think I've seen references of a lawyer using it, also
a doctor. That might make the presentation more useful to a general
audience.

> (besides the Advanced F&R -- are people still using that :-)?)

Yes from what I see it is used quite frequently. I also personally use
it myself for finding things and I really "find" it useful. However, I
don't quite trust it for automatic find & replace. I've come across a
few cases where it removed things it should not have. Actually,
sometimes I use it for removing, but only when I manually inspect the
git diff.

Hope you're doing well!

Scott

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