On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 09:20:31AM +0200, jdd wrote:
> Le Samedi 18 Août 2001 00:13, vous avez écrit :
>
> > How far away is it from being usable for LDP Authors?
Feedback is always welcome.
> I think LyX is right now usable to LDP authors. With the help of David
> Merrill I could fix the two problems that seems to comes from LyX - the
> others problems come probably from my own install and I will address them in
> an other mail.
>
> Lyx is a very valuable product, with a pleasant graphical interface, a very
> active developping staff and a very stable status (now V 1.1.6fix3). At
> www.lyx.org it can be donwloaded easily (only 5Mb).
>
> Was it difficult to get working?
>
> Docbook and SuSE (here 7.2) has always be a difficult story, I don't know
> why.
>
> As for LyX there are only (on my document !) only 3 problems easy to solve:
>
> * LyX don't (yet?) accept imbedded tags, fe author can't include surname
> (although all the necessary tags are present in the scrolling menu). I fixed
> this using "author" and inserting <firstname> and the like as "TeX" (redbox).
> It's enough to write the tag, select it and hit the "TeX" icon. Acceptable at
> this place.
This is one of place where improvement is really needed.
> * With my original Linuxdoc document I had a Table Of Content. The TOC tag is
> not removed when switching to docbook. It's enough to delete the tag in LyX
The TOC is also valid with docbook, but it is simply an hint to the style
sheets that can ignore it. That's is why I leave it there. The document will
not be valid converting from linuxdoc-lyx to docbook-lyx. I could have
documented it though....
> * the default quotes (french flavor) is not correctly translated and gives
> "?", one must use an other simpler kind of quotes in the document layout menu.
This will be fixed for next version. BTW the ? that appears at output is a
result of the browser not correctly displaying the resulting quote. I think
that I will resort to simple quotes this time.
> with this, my sgml doc passes the david merril processor.
>
> Would you recommend it to others?
>
> I strongly advocate LyX. LyX is a kind of graphical interface to TeX (when it
> don't write docbook), it allows very long, complex and structured document
> (still not having all the features of TeX) and still keep easy for anybody
Thanks. :-)
> Have you sent a bug report to the developers?
> I can't follow the LyX development, it's too fast ! I make the lys-devel list
> cc
>
> jdd
>
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