On Mon, 29 May 2006, Steve Litt wrote:
On Monday 29 May 2006 02:54 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You ask a very good question, and to be honest I have no idea whatsoever
why people aren't sharing their layouts, but here's two gueses:
* People feel that their layout isn't "good" enough...
Yes, I don't think my layouts are good enough, at least from a coding
viewpoint. They *do* accomplish the page layout I needed, but they're not
pretty, and probably not done the best way.
Ach.. ich verstehe. Mabye we dein Angst helfen kann. If you on that Couch
will lie down, we shall Your mutter, Uberjag und other issues diskutieren.
Ok, that parody didn't come out as well as I'd hoped... anyway, I
recognize the "my coding isn't good enough"-feeling. In addition, I'm
often somewhat of a perfectionist. What I can say is that in my
experience, people don't complain about coding quality[1].
At best they are very grateful and thankful to just get anything.
At worst, they ask for more features...
Btw, I'd like to take the this opportunity and thank your for some of the
stuff you wrote a long time ago about how to do your own layouts - those
texts really did help me! In fact, I probably relied on your tips quite a
bit when I did the Songbook layout.
* People feel that it's too difficult to upload the layout...
Yes, I feel the layouts are too hard to upload. I hardly know how to use
wikis at all.
I'd be happy to help with this of course. More importantly probably, I'm
very grateful for any tips on *what* it is that makes it diffiult. If it
so difficult that people as you don't to it, the entire LyX community is
missing out...
So please consider this a question to everyone on this list. Can you give
me examples on what you find difficult when it comes to the wiki? I won't
promise to fix it, especially if you just say "it sucks, man!". I will
however listen and try to figure out what the problem is.
/Christian
[1] The LyX developers list is an exception. They do have standards on the
coding quality there. These do however certainly not apply to examples
that LyX users contribute to the wiki. There it is "only" a matter of your
personal pride...
--
Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
