Le 26/03/2019 à 03:22, Uwe Stöhr a écrit :
But that is my main problem with LyX - the development focus on
developers needs, not on the needs of average users. Average users don't
need a dozen more expert features every release but a better workflow
allowing them to write more in shorter time, to collaborate with
colleagues, good and up-to date documentation etc.
That's true that "average" users as you name them do not necessarily care about
some specific packages which appear with new releases of LyX. But they can be
fairly productive with a several years old release of LyX and TeXLive.
In fact, we got much more problem with the development model of MiKTeX, which is
permanently upgrading (and killed LyX on Windows for some time incidently).
A development model à la Debian, where I can stick to the stable release if I
want to, seems much better to me than the MiKTeX stuff. And I'm not alone to
think like that, so why distributors would boast about LTS releases ?
I got the feeling that most core LyX developers are working at
universities and institutes while the majority of users have business
jobs where time matters.
Obviously, you do not know what you are speaking about. Do you really think that
people working in institutions have no deadlines ?
I worked in a research institute before I retired and I had deadlines all the
time for reports, presentations, papers and so on. That is exactly the reason
for using LaTeX instead of Word: I did not want to be blocked because the TOC
would mess up or the document being too big (happened once, I could not recover
control on the document). Compared to LaTeX, LyX offered me much better
productivity by easing e.g. a lot the reference and bibliography management
among many other user-friendly features.
The time spent to learn about both LaTeX and LyX, and thus learning how to
install them, was very rewarding in fact. I can't imagine anyone trying to
install LyX on Windows to write a document due shortly. There is a learning
curve, and your arguments about users having nothing to learn to be productive
with LyX seem pointless to me.
--
Jean-Pierre
