Well, after lots of fiddling and questions answered by this list, it looks
as though LyX just doesn't do what I had hoped it would.
I was looking for a simple tool that would allow my team to create
documents in a WYSIWYG environment and generate output that could be
tranformed (correctly) into multiple formats (HTML, PS, ASCII
required; PDF, RTF optional). For internal reasons, there must also be an
SGML "master" for archiving.
As far as document feature requirements, we need the usual: tables,
figures, table of contents, etc.
I had thought we could use LyX's docbook support for this but it turns out
that LyX does not provide support for TOC. We had previously struggled
with LyX' LinuxDoc support, but couldn't get figures and tables to work
until it was pointed on the mailing list that linuxdoc itself apparently
doesn't support this.
One of my major disappointments with LyX is that there is apparently no
sense of "context". Eg. if I choose the docbook template and LyX doesn't
support a TOC (as it doesn't) then the TOC feature should be disabled. I
shouldn't be able to insert anything that LyX doesn't do in that context.
Another good example is the linuxdoc template. If linuxdoc doesn't support
tables and figures, why am I allowed to insert tables and figures?!?!?
I guess for now I'm back to WordPerfect Office 2000 (Win32) for SGML work.
I'll keep fiddling with LyX as it progresses, but for now it doesn't
appear to be particularly usefull as a documentation tool.
-David
