On Friday 23 of January 2004 12:00, Raphael Clifford wrote: > I know this isn't the traditional open source way but what do > you think about having lyx tell you the URL for MFAQs? I mean > presumably that wouldn't be difficult and would help a lot of > newbies and not so newbies. Something along the lines of
The great idea. > [error message] > This is a common problem. Have a look at [URL] to see how to > fix it. Well, the problem in this case is that there is actually not error at all -- latex and pdflatex did what you have told them to do. Just it wasn't what you wanted. :-) > Obviously this has the problem of ever changing URLs but if we > could agree to have a top level Faq URL that is reasonably > stable (or a caveat saying to search from www.lyx.org if the > link doesn't work) we could just point people there and tell > them to search using ctrl+f in their browser. This would at > least tell people the problem is well known and is likely to > have been solved. Moreover, this is strictly speaking not LyX FAQ, but rather TeX one. And the URL you're searching for is www.lyx.org/help. Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is a constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read. -- Alberto Moravia
